The Millennial State of Happiness

We’ve all felt the phantom pressure. It’s the silent expectation that by a certain age, we should have already checked off the ‘big’ milestones: the degree, the career, the independent living, the marriage, the house, the kids. It’s an unwritten social script, a Standard Operating System (OS), that starts playing in the background of our mind...

There’s a subtle drift that can take hold in adulthood, a fog that doesn’t arrive all at once, but slowly settles in. Maybe you’ve felt it, or maybe you’ve just started to notice it in others: the persistent fatigue that lingers even after a full night’s sleep, the way small tasks feel inexplicably heavy, the creeping sense that you’re doing a lot but at the same time making ...

Honestly, it is a miracle that we even manage to get around. No, I am not talking about your weight, rather that long list of things you intend to do that you mentally drag with you everywhere that you go. Be honest with yourself, we’ve all been there. Looking around our rooms and everywhere we look is a reminder of ‘I promise, I’ll get around to it’ things.

That st...

It sneaks up on you quietly, this redefinition of success. One day, you’re chasing a dream with a checklist that was handed to you somewhere between college orientation and your first full-time job offer. And then, somewhere in your 30s, you look around and realize… you’re not even sure who wrote the list anymore.

Welcome to the decade of unlearning.