Burnout is something that comes for us all. When you work on something so much and you get jaded with the idea of it all, what does it all mean, and why are you even doing this in the first place, feelings like that. Graduating in this time period, with all the stuff that is going on in the world, feels aimless. The things that were promised to you when you were younger don’t exist anymore, and the successes of those you sought after have been dried up. Hell, the degree that I went into college for became less valuable by the time I graduated. It’s so hard to create a roadmap in life when there’s new things popping up every day that make certain things obsolete. Imagine telling a person that the job they pursue in college has a 30% chance of simply not existing after their 4 years are up. No one would take that risk, and yet it feels like we are all trying to throw our heads in the sand and not acknowledge it. It feels weird because our lives have improved so much in the past 20 years, yet it feels like most people are suffering more then before. The people of the past have borrowed so much from the future and now it’s starting to hit, and yet they have the audacity to keep borrowing from the future, to keep a short-term win, a position in office, to seek more riches then they already have. Collectively as a society have more then gathered that there is a disparity between us and them, a gap that is insurmountable yet fed to us like it’s simply made through hard work and effort.

There is something truly wrong and discomforting with the way we live our lives in this day and age. How so many things happen without consequence and the lack of ability to understand character. We distort the medium we see reality through lenses that others can control and monetize. We seek the attention of others, believing that they know more because of their status, when the reality is that they gain that status because of us. Only through success do people witness the vanity of it all, yet claim their position isn’t that great. One says money doesn’t buy happiness, but isn’t throwing it away. There is something to be said on how the world focuses on peoples’ attention, yet the people do not focus on themselves. We complain about sensationalism when the reality is that we created it. We are all slaves to ourselves and there more systems then ever to sustain that cycle.

Life is hard, and more then ever have we needed to continuously fight against ourselves to enjoy the little time we have. Don’t waste your life living through someone else, or hurting through an imaginary scenario you made in your head. Live a life that YOU find meaning in, because at the end of the day, that’s all you will ever have.