admin“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure…We ask ourselves who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous. Actually who are you not to be?” wrote Marianne Williamson.
As she explained that sometimes people are their own worst enemies on their road to success.
At some point everyone has great expectations to amount to something remarkable breaking away from the norm of mediocrity.
Who doesn’t envisage themselves as the next Mark Zuckerberg, Strive Masiyiwa or phenomenon youthful dancehall chanter Tocky Vibes.
Reality at times tends to reflect the opposite of what cool teens have planned.
Frustrations starts to creep as plans laid out fail to come to fruition at the expected time frame.
Some teenagers reach a breaking point where they deviate from their guiding principles when their dreams and aspirations appear to be fading away from their grasp.
It is hard to stomach failure, humiliation and disappointment when one’s expectations are raised high.
Alcohol abuse, drugs and smoking appears to be the “reasonable” prescription to some youths to alleviate pain to deal with the way things are turning out.
However, cool teenagers should know not every plan that one has succeeds.
Everyone comes across certain pitfalls on their road to success.
Sheer determination, patience and good faith is what one should be equipped if there are to succeed.
A true champion is not measured by his/her losses but how many times they are willing to get up on their feet until the “dream” is realised.
When life gives you lemons make lemonade.
Falling short of one’s expectations is not the end of the road.
Everyone goes through the good, the bad and ugly experiences.
Cool teens should have a champion mentality that says I will overcome no matter what challenge I am currently facing.
When one door closes another door opens for one to explore new avenues to success.
Be it a career, dream or education.
One should not allow a handful of failures to define them but should embrace their pitfalls as a learning curve not to repeat the same mis- takes.
It is a choice not to surrender on one’s dream no matter the odds against them.
There is definitely light at the end of the tunnel.
One should bear in mind that the darkest hour is before dawn.
It is not an easy task for one to pick the pieces were there left them from when the road to success looks bleak.
It takes guts over fear for one to pick themselves up from the ashes in pursuit of their dream or goal.
However, there are those defining moments were cool teenagers have to display character in the midst of humiliation, adversity and pain.
Success is a trophy earned after a struggle to achieve it.
Online Reporter