Why Everyone Feels Behind Even When They’re Doing Fine
The invisible pressure shaping modern life and how to stop internalizing it.
There’s a strange contradiction many people are living with right now.
On paper, things are fine.
Work is getting done.
Life is moving forward.
Responsibilities are being handled.
And yet, there’s a persistent feeling of being behind.
Not dramatically failing. Not collapsing. Just slightly late to everything. Like everyone else got a memo you missed. Like you’re constantly catching up to a moving target that never stops shifting.
This feeling is so common that it’s easy to assume it’s personal.
It isn’t.
It’s structural.
