Actually, I’ve found it the opposite. The project has made me feel less alone, and it has given me clarity about my life and my friends’ lives. I see now, finally, a way out of our crisis. It begins with facing up to our lives as they really are, letting go of the expectations we had for ourselves growing up, and finishes with finding a viable support system and realizing that this stage of life doesn’t last forever. The truth is, when you look at what we were up against as a generation, we are doing better than we had any reason to expect.