An unlikely project in the middle of a civil war shows us what is possible in the direst situations. Plus seven others reasons to be hopeful this week
The age-old story of triumph over adversity is one of the most rousing Upsides there is.
We’ve seen it countless times through history, and repeatedly throughout this past year of lockdown: charitable heroism, selfless devotion, scientific endeavour. But now imagine not one year but 10 years of adversity, more than 1% of your compatriots dead, about 50% in flight.
Oh yeah. I have no doubt that we will be stronger than generations who grew up in relative prosperity. We get called millennials a lot, mostly by those who don’t care about the difference, but we are different. We’ve grown up in two recessions and a pandemic, and our oldest members are only 25! I’d say the future looks bright for Gen Z. Unless y’all screw it up for us with this climate change problem.
I am a 19-year-old student and really liked your article on lockdown building resilience. I would absolutely agree; even at the moment if something goes wrong, compared to the events of the last year it feels like less of a problem. I wrote an article on a topic related to this, on how lockdown has highlighted society’s fragility, but also human endurance.
When we are all let out of lockdown and back into normal-ish lives, I think we will remember the stress and discontent of these years, and think. “Hey, at least it’s not 2020!”
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