Individuality?

Agitation. Loneliness. Frustration.

I am bursting. I want to do everything, anything but I am incapable of nothing. I am like the hanging man, waiting and waiting for my own potential, my own development to come to fruit;  but instead I self -sabotage in a cage of my own making.  I have a noose around my ambitions; my excitement and thrive dying as I pull the rope tighter and tighter until I am left with nothing.

The new age of individuality is harsh. We beckon self-accomplishment, drive; we must be perfect. We must achieve more than we ever dreamed. Or else we are failures.

This need, this thrive for constant and demanding validation and of reaching our dreams is endless. Without possibilities. It makes us imaginative, creative, striving. But does it make us happier? Are we happier by each success, or already drowning in attempting the next?

What is individuality in the contemporary period? Mediation, yoga, spirituality.  All focused on YOUR wellbeing, YOUR mental health, YOUR joy.

I don't think selfishness is negative. Not at all. But the hyperfocus, almost like a thread that goes inside the needle, perhaps disables us. We