The single point of misery for a lot of people is this blatant unexamined sense of being that they become.
I keep seeing so many posts on social media about being who you are, but inherently those posts try to make you someone you are not! People keep talking about karma and how they are manifesting things. That certain folks would be hit by their karmas since they did something bad to them. In all of this they forget that the universe itself manifests in everything around us, including us. So someone causing pain to you is also in a way the universe!
I keep seeing so much gap between who people are, what they want to project and what they end up projecting. The constant bargaining that they keep doing with themselves. We throw the term “be your authentic self” around too much. But, no one really talks about what is your authentic self? Ask 10 people the question: Who are you? And I bet 9/10 won't be able to say anything apart from their work or education, or worse nothing at all.
So much effort is being put into being someone that we forget to be ourselves!
This constant war that we are waging in our minds, seems to be the cause of the mental exhaustion we feel. The more we work towards being someone, the more we get away from who we are!