When Life Gets Too Real

Text on the meme

Woke up from a nap prostate cancer Wife’s gone All my friends dead Son is trying to put me in a care home

What it means

An older man makes a weary, squinting face, then drives a convertible through a rainy suburban landscape before returning to the close-up. The bleak list of life problems is paired with Alice In Chains’ “Nutshell” from the Unplugged performance, whose melancholic acoustic grunge mood turns the exaggerated misery into a darkly comic reaction about having nothing left to lose.

Sound

♪ Alice In Chains — Nutshell (Unplugged)

music / музыка

Objects

older man / пожилой мужчина white hair / белые волосы white T-shirt / белая футболка gray polo shirt / серая рубашка-поло convertible car / кабриолет steering wheel / руль seat belt / ремень безопасности car interior / салон автомобиля suburban street / пригородная улица rainy sky / дождливое небо mountains / горы desert landscape / пустынный пейзаж houses / дома road / дорога landscaped front yard / благоустроенный двор black gravel / чёрный гравий rock / камень small trees / небольшие деревья close-up face / крупный план лица