
You can have a full calendar, a decent paycheck, and a phone buzzing with notifications every five minutes and still feel oddly hollow, like you’re busy but not actually going anywhere that matters.
That low-level restlessness so many people brush off as “just stress” is often something deeper: a quiet erosion of purpose caused by the way modern life is structured. We live faster, consume more information than any generation before us, and are constantly nudged to optimize everything, yet many people feel less connected to meaning than ever. Why is that? Let’s dig into it!