Just some thoughts.

One could say that the standard goals for an adult in our western society have not changed over the last couple of decades and on first glance this statement could seem valid. Get a decent job, stay in touch with your friends from high school, college etc. and manage to find a partner for a serious long-term relationship. If you're one of those OCD types (who want to achieve everything) you could additionally try to have some children and raise them properly. These things have always kinda been there and achieving these goals kinda gave your life relevance and meaning (from an objective point of view). But there is a trend that I've noticed that kinda leads to a devaluation of these goals that a large part of society grew up with.

There are seven billion people living on this planet, when you think about the number and then imagine all these people in one place you'd notice how many of them did all these things above and that this 50's - 90's checklist for a meaningful life means nothing anymore. People nowadays do not struggle for successful careers or relationships, because they do not give you them this feeling of having a raison d'être. They are struggling to be seen and be heard and most importantly to be known. Look at this parallel community that we are maintaining via the WWW. It is full of social networks and platforms an all of these can show you who is the most important user, who has the most interesting blog and how many people are on your goddamn friendslist. These are the things now that allow you to measure your value as a person and I still don't get why.