Here’s a thought: Life has become more and more unsatisfying for most of us, and society as a whole is starting to “checkout”. People are mentally checking out of life. Some people are getting so overwhelmed that they are getting sick and are physically checking out of life.

I see it when I go sit in the park on the bench or at a coffee shop and see EVERYBODY on their smart phones, even when they are sitting next to someone they came to the park or coffee shop with!

We are not content (although we are very good at pretending that we are) and many of us simply want to get out of here. By “here” I mean this shallow, self-important, poorly focused and poorly managed life that so many of us are living.

We feel overwhelmed by it all: the hundreds of hours we spend reading articles and opinions online, the reality shows that teach us to compete with one another, the magazines, commercials, and advertisements that tell us we’re not enough because we don’t have certain things. Feeling like everyone has it better than us. Always wanting the newest thing, including relationships, which is why we don’t have deep, meaningful, strong relationships. Families torn apart and scattered all over the map, more of us living alone. Trying to be ahead of intellectual fads so we can seem most sophisticated and most worthy of attention. We have become a miserable, lonely, judgmental, over-intelligent, arrogant, and separated society and it is killing us.

So, what to do? Read more here.