Today, because staying alive is not hard, people are unable to find meaning in life itself. Yet we must look for meaning in life itself, "comments social critic Nanfang Shuo. He notes that feelings of fatigue, emptiness, waste, and futility with respect to life have become an unavoidable existential question for young men and women.
到了今日，活著已不再艱難，已使人無法從活著本身找到意義，而必須從生命本質上探求意義，」社會評論家南方朔為文指出，對生命的倦怠、虛空、枉費、徒勞的質疑，如今成了連少男少女也無法逃避的存在本質問題。