GOAL: RESILIENCE

Calm down, you're doing just FINE.

It's hard to tell because the media focuses on only the flashy, successful, controversial, really really cool stories, but the majority of the world is actually pretty average, bordering on mediocre.

Nobody knows that they're doing.

The older you get, the more you'll notice: Companies are run by idiots, your bosses know less than you, mistakes happen daily in any establishment, things take longer than you think they should, your parents were wrong about so many things.

People are panicked, confused, anxious. They are insomniacs. They get stuck in traffic. They forget their keys. They flirt with their committed coworkers. They make bad choices and they choose the needlessly difficult path.

Your life might seem like a dumpster fire, but rest assured, everybody's lives are dumpster fires. It doesn't matter who - the rich, the poor, the black, the white, the adult, the senior, or all of the children.

Nobody is spared. We're all idiots. You're doing just fine.


Exercise

SELF-DISCOVERY

  1. Describe a major way in which your life is a dumpster fire.

  2. What is the worst case scenario?

  3. If that worse case scenario came to pass, how would you handle it, whether realistically or emotionally?