Growing Up
What Kiki’s Delivery Service can teach us about making it through our twenties.
Our minds play a cruel trick on us. When faced with the success of others, we are driven — more often than not — to draw comparisons with ourselves. As such, on an almost daily basis, we indulge in regret over what we perceive we have failed to achieve. Think about it, how often have you sat down to work and questioned why you’re bothering? Felt unworthy? Felt like someone else would do it better? How often have you felt bitter at seeing someone younger than you succeed on television? Or had your self-esteem damaged by reading pieces on entrepreneurs like Elon Musk and the attributing of success to long hours — while you stare at your computer, in your pyjamas, eating what you claim will be your last tub of ice cream? Human beings are good at a great many things, but there’s nothing we’re so adept at than beating ourselves up.
We have watched the cost of living triple while wages have frozen over the past thirty years — all while being told by those responsible that if we work hard, we can get what and where we want. It’s a lie. But it’s a lie we have no choice but to believe, otherwise what’s the…
