The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

Every so often, Hollywood decides to bring into light a new aspect of life in Africa, and 2019 is no exception. The boy who harnessed the wind was a film based on a true story of one such young man who believed that he could use alternative energy in order to sustain the agricultural life in his village.

William and his family go through a number of hardships in order to survive, including being robbed of their grain, the nation going through political upheaval and William's sister running away from home.
And yet throughout all of it, William remains true to his talent for inventing and wanting to do more for his family and friends in his home of Malawi.

A topic of discussion I wanted to bring up was one about resilience.
Now being resilient can be considered a very subjective term, one might consider being resilient as simply not breaking down mentally, and another person may consider resilience the absence of suicide. But in essence most of us wold believe that resilience is a personality trait that helps humans to get back up after having been knocked down and not giving up.

With the rise of more and more privileged generations, resilience becomes a trait that we develop later and later in life and do not have enough coping mechanisms to extract our own emotions from the hardships we would encounter in daily life, and as a result of this we find the newer generations of people not only being extra sensitive toward non-inclusive topics but also not being able to develop "thick skin" or grow from critique.

I don't think there has ever been a perfect generation of people, everyone had their own pit falls and shortcomings. What is important is how we can learn from those that have come before and after us and choose a standard of life that is unique and fulfills our own unique life's calling.