Living to be acceptable to this fallen world's standards is not actually satisfying anyway. Surely you have noticed being rich and famous does not bring contentment, being right with God does. God would have us see the world through His eyes. We should not live to fit in with the world but to stand out from it by demonstrating the true satisfaction of living for God.
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
[1Jn 2:15-16]
The lust of the flesh simple refers to our selfish desire to indulge ourselves. Here is Paul's description of it:
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, adultery, fornication, (harlotry and pre-marital sex) uncleanness, (inc. masturbation) lasciviousness (wantonness), idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance (being argumentative), emulations (jealous anger), wrath, strife, seditions (divisiveness), heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. [Gal 5:19-21]
God wants us to divorce our relationship with selfishness. This world will think you crazy but it is the world that is crazy, it is heading for Hell. To follow Jesus is to be gloriously peculiar.
Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. [Tit 2:14]
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, [2Co 6:17]
By the world's standards we may appear as peculiar but the Lord will delight in our devotion to pleasing Him as we forsake sin and worldly vanity. In the fullness of time He will reward you beyond what you can imagine.
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
[1Co 2:9]
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