Growing up, I never encountered many challenges, I came from a relatively stable home and attended a nice school, always got what I wanted or needed and never had to worry a day in my life as to what was going to happen the next day.
Although this seems like the perfect way to grow up, my mind began to create difficulties and challenges in areas where there were none. Anxiety began to creep into my life about the most insignificant issues or scenarios. Depression found it's way into my life, constantly focusing on what I didn't have and being a victim to my self-induced apathy. Apathy that came from entitlement, expecting the world to owe me something, and waiting for my big day to come around, where all my success would be served to me on a silver platter.
Studying Psychology, I was constantly focusing my perfectionist attitude on my self-betterment, constantly exploring ways of overcoming these monsters inside of me. On this journey I encountered many avenues of healing, but resilience was my greatest and most profound teacher.
I began to start setting goals to do some difficult things, like running marathons, and ultra marathons, engaging in absurd exercise challenges, long meditation sessions etc.
These difficult feats began to shed the blanket of emotions on myself, it fueled my self-belief and taught me that I am in charge of my own destiny. Nobody is coming to save me, its all me.
I believe our youth of today, exposed to constant instant gratification are in dire need of DELAYED GRATIFICATION, teaching themselves that good things come from hard work and persevering through the doubt and naysayers.