‘Avocado Anxiety’ Is An Official First-World Problem, According To Survey

Our lives are fraught with anxiety every single day. Modern life has definitely added new things to worry about. Aside from anxiety over our job security, relationships, safety out on the streets, the future of our children, and access to basic needs, we burden ourselves with worrying about the trivial things like, well, whether an avocado is ripe or not.

It has been joked about a lot lately – how millennials are stressing over their precious avocados. But as it turns out, what has been called ‘avocado anxiety’ is a real thing. And there’s a survey to prove it.

A new survey by Goldsmith’s University of London tried to find out millennials’ first-world problems.

The survey aims to compare people’s worries today with those faced by people now aged 50 or over two decades ago. Two thousand people, aged 18 to 70, were polled.

Avocado anxiety ranks 14th on the list of common first-world problems as discovered by the survey.

Researchers found that one in three millennials admitted to feeling a serious sense of worry over whether or not their avocado is under- or over- ripe. Indeed, avocado has become one of the unique stressors of the 21st century. But that’s not all.

Twenty years ago, the number one worry of people was having a happy and healthy relationship.

Today, it is having to wait in all day for a delivery because there isn’t a specific time given during online shopping transactions. Other first-world problems found by the survey include ‘having to get dressed to open the front door’ and ‘having numerous items of clothing on one hanger because you haven’t got enough.’ As shown by the survey, today’s millennials are significantly troubled by these trivial matters.

What do you think of these first-world problems? Leave your thoughts in the comments below.