The constant rush through life leads to anxiety and dissatisfaction.
Evidence
A ringer. This had been true my whole life. … The unspoken assumption behind most of my forward momentum was that whatever was coming next would definitely be better. — Dan Harris, 10 percent Happier, 279
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Dan Harris, 10 percent Happier, 279
- XREF: connects to: Everyday attention lapses and memory failures have affective consequences of mindlessness. — Everyday attention lapses and memory failures; Life finds only illusory goals and ultimate disappointment when confined to itself — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 845; Pre-modern life was itself fraught with anxiety and risk — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 254 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Feeling larger than the universe while longing for the future is inherently restless
#corroborates(0.75) — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 894