🚨 Or is the value "must have a life goal" a psychological assault on the younger generation?

We often hear teachings that tell us to "find patches," "live life to be meaningful," or "create change for the world."

True, people who know what they wake up for are often happy...But in psychology, recent research discovers the controversial and painful truth: "This struggle to find meaning in life is what makes the younger generation most stressed and sick."

Psychologists divide the "meaning of life" into two conditions that affect mental health completely differently:

✅ 1. Once discovered (Presence of Meaning):

If you have a goal, congratulations! This is an "elite shield." Research has shown that it reduces stress, improves physical health, and reduces the risk of depression.

❌ 2. When struggling to find (Search for Meaning):

But if you don't have one yet, and try hard to find it...This is a "poison pill," the more it struggles to find; the worse mental health; it is directly linked to depression, anxiety and cumulative stress.

The question is, why is goal-seeking becoming a torture thing in this day and age?

🥀 1. Existential Vacuum:

When society says you have a goal, but the real world you can't find, this gap causes a sense of emptiness, loss, and chronic stress.

📱 2. "Must be special" culture and social illusion:

The younger generation bears enormous pressure to have a "perfect and valuable" life. Social media is full of people who seem to discover greatness at a young age. This sets a toxic standard, making people who just want to have a "normal life" each day feel like they're losers.

🔀 3. The burden of excessive freedom (Burden of Infinite Choice):

Before the era, life goals may have been defined according to their role in society or religion, but this generation of children has to "create" them from scratch among thousands of career and identity choices. Having to choose everything itself creates a lot of mental fatigue.

🌪️ 4. Fragile age range + chaotic world:

Adolescents and the beginning of work, when life is still still, when it comes to figuring out the meaning of life in the midst of a harsh economy, a warming world, and social isolation, it triggers the perfect mental health crisis.

💡 A summary that society needs to re-understand:

Research suggests that the "meaning of life" will be good for the heart only if we have found the meaning of life.

So we should stop romantic size, "need a session," and stop pressuring the younger generation.

It's not wrong that you don't have a big goal yet.

It's not wrong for you to just wake up and eat something delicious, watch your favorite series, and end the day.

Living a "normal person" who does not yet know what life means...Not a failure.

Be very kind to yourself, don't rush to find out, because just surviving in this era is good enough. 🤍

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