Labeling something as "romanticizing" is such anti-happiness rhetoric. Sorry, the world sucks too much and your life is too average for you to have earned the right to be happy and have hope in spite of your struggles. You should project all your misery on the injustice and imperfections of the world. "You will be happy when this gets fixed!! Just one more fix bro!!" It's possibly worse than the past generations projection of happiness on material possessions. Those generations grew up being told everything they should want and that it would make them happy — their threadmil. At least they were actually somewhat in control of achieving that stuff and could eventually come to the realization that it'e a failing strategy.