> I often have this weird fear that I wont accomplish anything in my life like it is some sort of personal failure. It's not a weird fear. It is rooted in the

> I often have this weird fear that I wont accomplish anything in my life like it is some sort of personal failure. It's not a weird fear. It is rooted in the expressive individualism of our age, which strips us of tribal identity and tells us that we can be whoever we make ourselves. Both for better and for worse. The worse of the latter is that if we do not make anything of ourselves, it is our fault. This is perhaps a little more true today than it was in ages past, but we feel it to be a near-absolute truth where it was barely thought of once. I feel the same thing. It is neither strange nor unexplainable. It is one of the little-spoken downsides of modernity.