The Male Loneliness Epidemic
The Problem:
The male loneliness rate has been described as a 'silent epidemic'.
The last few years, the rates of male suicide have sky rocketed. We don't talk about this a lot in the news because it doesn't fit with the current wave but, on average, there are 4x more male suicides than female suicides.
We all know statistics can lie and so can research, but all we need is to look into our inner selves or around us to notice that this is absolutely true.
'What is a man's purpose' is such an interesting question because asking that 50 years ago would be insanity, everyone kind of knew what it meant.
As a 22 year old man, I've spent 2/4 of my life starting the day by asking the question 'Why am I waking up?'.
My personal experience:
I graduated with a degree in IT 2 years ago in the midst of the Covid pandemic. After spending most of my life to get that piece of paper, we didn't even get a graduation ceremony.
Since then, I've been stuck in a cubical working in Tech for someone else.
Don't get me wrong, I love Tech.
But the feeling of being stuck there for 8 hours is so life draining to me.
I appear to be the only one though, the rest of my co-workers seem to be pretty okay with it, they drink coffee and laugh.
That's the life that's coming for you too when you graduate.
Unless you're aware that there's more.
And this is my solution to the Male Loneliness Epidemic:
My Solution:
First, become aware that there's more than just the regular path.
Second, adopt traditional masculine stereotypes like becoming strong and stoic, go to the gym and lift heavy weights.
But,
The thing that the modern man needs to do more than our forefathers is self-education.
You need to follow your curiosity, buy courses and learn by yourself.
Become a polymath, a modern day digital renaissance man.
Replace that loneliness you feel with skill learning and education.
Not only will you become more interesting to everyone, but you'll earn more and feel more fulfilled.
There won't be space for chaos in your mind.
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