Why Does Everyone Feel So Empty Today?

Published 2025-10-19 13-19

Summary

Most people follow the same path and end up feeling empty because the system wasn’t designed to help you become yourself—it was built to create predictable workers.

The story

What if everything you learned about success was designed to make you average?

I spent years watching people chase the same dreams. Same degree. Same corporate ladder. Same definition of making it. And most of them ended up feeling empty, wondering why the formula didn’t work.

Here’s what nobody tells you: the educational system wasn’t built to help you become yourself. It was built to create productive, predictable workers. Even in creative fields, there are approved ways to be creative.

You have to unlearn most of what you were taught. Question the grades, the gold stars, the safe path. Then you have to relearn based on what actually matters to you.

The scary part? This is a solitary journey that nobody can take for you. Not your parents. Not your professors. Not your boss.

Use your uniqueness as a filter. Take what serves you. Discard what doesn’t. Build new habits. Change your self-talk. Take action on dreams you actually want, not dreams that look good on paper.

Failure stops being failure when you treat it like data. Each mistake teaches you something about your real path.

The truth is, nobody’s coming to give you permission to be yourself. You have to claim it. You have to build it. Day by day, choice by choice.

I wrote the first two chapters of “The Journey – I wish I knew this before I was 21” because someone should have told me this sooner. Maybe it’ll save you some time.

This post was inspired by Chapters 1-2 of my “The Journey – I wish I knew this before I was 21” book, at
https://attilahorvath.net/the-journey.

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Keywords: SelfActualization, conformity trap, authentic self-discovery, system rebellion