Generalizations of our reality.

Since the invention of the television and the modern sitcom, American life has been glamourized as an institution that is perfect all the time, or what has been dubbed “the American dream”. We’d like to think that this is the truth, but sadly it could not be more wrong. So we live our everyday lives the way it was intended, but even the idea of what is defined as a hard or stressful life to a person has been so generalized that a normal level of difficulty or stress can seem out of this world. But the question arises (rhetorical of course), how can you generalize any part of human life when we live in a world where every individual is so unique, possessing their own personality and tolerance level when it comes to these things? Therefore, it is impossible to gauge just how “hard” a person has it because one person could be the busiest and most stressed individual in the individual on the face of this earth, but doesn’t say a word about it simply because it does not bother them. Then there are the people that probably don’t have much going on but they act like they have the world weighing down on their shoulders; so it really possible to feel sympathy for others when they discuss their lives in such a way when it is impossible to know which of the people listed above they are? That is the cause of our modern world, where sitcoms and reality TV has generalized almost every human emotion.