No, it’s not just you who’s feeling something is off. This is based on ten years of daily intense, individual sessions with tons of people. All people who by any standard are ‘normal’. This is how ALL of them feel inside to varying degrees:

  1. I am not enough.
  2. I am falling behind.
  3. I don’t know what really matters anymore.
  4. I wish someone truly understood me.
  5. I am exhausted, but I can’t seem to stop.
  6. I am afraid of missing out on a better life.
  7. I wonder whether people like the real me or just the version I present.
  8. I have so many options that I don’t know which one to choose.
  9. I worry that my life is passing faster than I am actually living it.
  10. I want my life to mean something.

Even the people you admire feel like this. Even the ones you envy.

And the ones who sound the most like they have it all figured out are secretly plagued the most by all these.

We live in an evironment that produces exactly these feelings.

To not make this post longer:

consumption benefits from these feelings.

If tomorrow people wake up with the opposite of these feelings most of today’s economy would likely collapse.