Ever since I graduated college several years back, finding some sort of balanced lifestyle has constantly evaded me. It's impossible to work 40+ hours weekly, practice decent personal hygiene, keep fit and eat healthy, nurture social, romantic, and familial relationships, stay well informed, have interesting hobbies, deal with unexpected hurdles, get enough sleep, and take time to pause for even just a few moments of reflection. I'm constantly shuffling things around, never finding a rhythm.
So how do you do it? Do you sacrifice something?
To me, it seems like a constant existential crisis where unreasonable expectations are increasingly levied upon us by society, far outpacing the limits set by human biological evolution.
What are your thoughts on this? Is this mostly an American cultural phenomenon, are our European/Australian/other-first-world-counterparts enjoying greener pastures?
I get that this is a pretty petty thing to bitch about, in the global scheme of things...