30/01/2026
This video pops up every couple of years in my feed and it always makes me want to post it everywhere.
One of the topics that has come up regularly in my work over the years is resilience. I think this video sums it up.
We don't talk about struggles. We don't acknowledge the challenges we overcome on a daily basis, instead in this era of Social Media, "picture perfect" has become the norm. We are being led to believe we can have anything and everything without exerting any effort. This is the sad reality of the content young people are being fed daily.
In reality, it is through our disappointments, our mistakes and what we perceive as failures, that we genuinely learn and grow as individuals. This is the reality we need to expose young people to.
Thinking of all the young people doing their pre-exams at the moment. This is an opportunity to realise what you don't know, what you don't understand. Use the experience to focus your study and learning. As with every achievement, you need to do the work, to put in the effort, to live the experience . Otherwise you can't truly appreciate the outcome.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUE8g-QCP8E/?igsh=emNzcDBlcmkxdHds
