Take a breath.
There is more to life than measuring up.
You are O.K.
Life's most basic lessons seem to be passing over people in their 20s. They cannot hear them.
Young people have always struggled with such deafness, of course.
But if this generation struggles to suck the marrow out of life it is because such lessons are best learned in the context of true loneliness and unmediated friendship.
Time that has no agenda and the waxing and waning of relationships are where you hear that it is O.K. not to take yourself uber-seriously. Context, not volume, pricks the ear of the soul.
What if you never sit on the bus without your phone?
What if you only thread your life into the life of a friend through the needle of a screen?
Well, texture is lost, including the texture that gives the soul you listen with its grip and gravity, its context.