David309211's video: The I-Heart Revolution: We re All In This together

You know society can be so quick to kind of sell us this picture that if you look like this, or if you have that, or if you be like them, then everything is going to be sweet. The reality is, it's a lie. I watch a generation coming through that doesn't understand that they've got value. They look at the media and they look at what the world says and they just think they're worth nothing. And they get caught in a cycle of: "My parents are on the dole and on welfare, and they fight and they bicker, and my parents are divorced". And they don't get that that doesn't define who they are. I remember just going like, I wonder if anyone had even had the same thoughts, or worries or struggles that I did. You feel so alone, you want so much to know what's going on, but you feel like you don't know what's going on. the issues young people in Switzerland face are lack of identity and values. We have a lot of divorces. The divorce rate is more than 50%, so nobody tells them that they are loved, that they are worth something. They work hard to get a lot of money, to have their status symbols, and they feel there is something missing so they consume drugs. They have sexual relations that won't work, and other relations that destroy them. You go to school during the week or you work during the week, and then you're basically waiting for the weekend so you can go out and get completely off your head drunk. And then you have a hangover on Sunday, and then you go back to school or work again so you can go do that again the next weekend. And even this idea of self injury; hearing from people who said that things felt so out of control, and life felt like such a storm on the inside. And so they were, something like cutting was this idea of using pain to deal with pain, and to try and have some sense of control. Which for people who don't struggle with that feels so often very, very foreign, and even hard to relate to. Everything's plastic in the culture that I come from. Everything's dependant on who you know, and what you drive, and what you wear. For me in high school I cared so much about what everyone thought about me. So instead of kinda going who am I? What am I supposed to do? I got so sidetracked on who should I be for other people? And you're cool or you're not cool; just the stupid stuff that comes in high school, your whole identity is formed there. For me that was a massive battle, being comfortable with who I was. It just really is about appearances, and it is cosmetic in every way, it's a cosmetic peace and satisfaction. And underneath it all, there's just, there's the same, it's just empty. It's empty... We can be so quick to kind of chase, I suppose in vain, our value in the attention or applause of man. And we compare ourselves to this picture of success that society throws at us. And in the process, I suppose we trade our individuality, the things that make us unique for basically the uniform of the crowd, and when we do that we just become like everyone else, and we miss perhaps the opportunity to play the part that only we can play. — Transcript from the I-Heart Revolution, We're All In This Together