Today’s world employs a flood of chemical and physical approaches to contend with the challenges of increased awareness. Most respond to these challenges not by seeking their solutions, but by muting the signals they produce, saturating their brains and schedules with things that help them ignore them.
None of these external approaches actually address the underlying problem. Instead of fixing the problem, they merely make it possible to care less about it. The honest sufferer has to admit that no amount of pills, liquids, or hedonistic living will actually take away the anxiety, sorrow, and suffering they experience.
Children, for the most part, are joyful beings. Unhappiness in its many forms tends to correlate with the transition into adulthood and the increased awareness it brings. Though it will not attain its full potential without exercise, to a certain extent, the mind will grow on its own, just as the body will. Unfortunately, one’s ability to cope with awareness does not grow automatically. Furthermore, the greater the intelligence of the individual, the more drastic will be the increase in their awareness, and the less sufficient their childhood tools will be for contending with adult life.