Journey of Youth: Overcoming Challenges of Life FTEM

Youth – A GenZ Perspective

Youth has always played a crucial role in bringing changes to the society. But no one has ever tried to understand their mindset. Being a part of Gen Z, I believe that I have accurately written down the real life experience and challenges of youth nowadays.

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Unstoppable Youth

Youth is the pollen that blows through the sky, and does not ask why
Stephen Vincent Benet

This famous quote by Stephen Vincent Benet is quite enough to describe the mentality of this new generation. Youth is unstoppable and flows with the time, enjoying each aspect of life and not questioning where life is taking them.

Just like pollens flow in the sky and land on the ground to develop into a plant, the youth moves on the track of life not knowing where the path is growing, but carrying a single dream to rest in the shade of the tree of growth and self-satisfaction, standing at the end of the path.

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Saying Yes or No?

The youth is naturally characterized by the traits which portray them as the individuals filled with loads of energy, dreams, positive attitude and the aspiration to bring a change to this world. But here the question arises, can you see this psychology in today’s generation and the passion to accomplish them? It is heart-breaking to say that the answer is ‘No’. Many of you will surely doubt this ‘No’ but somehow it is becoming true with each passing day.

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Mental Health

It is not reasonable to raise the concern over the changing attitude of the youth and hold them guilty for the same. This is because the youth is still on that path of achieving their dreams and contributing towards society, but nowadays that path is filled with lots of obstacles that generate immense pressure on their mental health to take the shortcuts and divert from their actual goals.

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The Social Burden

Another problem which is common among the youth these days is that they got worried and start feeling burdened by the achievements of others, even though they may not be jealous. They wonder why they are not in the same shoes as the other person is. They develop the thinking that they are facing severe competition from others and are unable to attain the same success.

This may be due to:
a) The social burden
b) Family’s pressure or
c) Loss of strength to face them

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Overcoming Challenges

The initial two factors can be avoided by the strong mentality but the third one is the most disastrous for the future of the youth. The third factor is like a termite, which makes the person hollow from deep inside and excavates all the potential to fight the challenges. The only solution to get rid of it is to believe in your abilities and not underestimate them at any point.

Did You Know?
A person belonging to a low-income family, facing great troubles and with lack of facilities, can also become the world’s highest-paid CEO, and this is only because of his determination and the dedication to do something huge in life. That person is Alphabet and Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai.

The Successful Youth

So, challenges and successes are the two faces of the same coin, called life. If you toss the coin, you don’t know what you will get. Similarly, when the coin of life is tossed, no one knows what he/she will get. If it is a challenge, then face it and achieve the success. And if it is a success, don’t stop and continue to work hard, because you never know when the next challenge is waiting for you!

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