These are subjective and personal. What causes the stress? What caused reduction in harmony, certainty, hope? Your parents probably lives through a transition

These are subjective and personal. What causes the stress? What caused reduction in harmony, certainty, hope? Your parents probably lives through a transition from extreme scarcity to abundance. As scarce as things were for them in the 80s, they were probably at lot more scarce in the 50s and 40s. Maybe your parents didn’t experience that directly but their parents did for sure. From our grandparents generation and before, a much higher proportion of them were directly affected by things like war. If you’re lacking hope because you’re afraid of something like war, I would consider that a luxury compared to actually being in a war.