Sounds like you read my response to your karma story.

I follow you because you remind me of my younger self.

This article immediately made me think of the quote below since it seems that the angst you so well describe is a fundamental human condition that can only be relieved through fundamental awareness. I don’t want to get too preachy so I’m going to leave it up to the power of Google to provide an attribution to the quote.

If you wish to free yourself from the sufferings of birth and death you have endured since time without beginning and to attain without fail unsurpassed enlightenment in this lifetime, you must perceive the mystic truth that is originally inherent in all living beings. This truth is…