The extraordinary steps of a gen Z
[Applause]
good morning everyone
my name is kim with it here i’m 19 years
old and
thank you very much for having got up so
early to be here
in a chilly weekend morning today i’m
gonna talk about
the most extraordinary step of mine
which i took
last year in february last year
after spending a lovely ted holiday with
my family
in my hometown i went back to ho chi
minh city
continue
and full of certainty that 2020 was
going to be my year
i’m gonna excel at my study i’m gonna
meet the coolest people i’m gonna
produce a lot of good content for my
youtube and blogs
every week i’m gonna make money and
and we all know what happened next
not so long after kobe 19 drove the
world crazy
and ho chi chi went into a complete
lockdown
with no end in sight my university
after delaying the commencement date of
the new semester
by two weeks decided that for the first
time ever in history
all the teaching and learning activities
would be carried out
online from an outgoing person
that would be on the road most of the
time i was then
having to spend 23 and 50 minutes
inside my house guess what i did in
that remaining 10 minutes outdoor
disposing garbage and collecting on
deliveries
useless and full of self-hatred that was
how
i felt during the lockdown
all our my attention span were
and my creativity was completely
dampened so i found it com
impossible to focus on my study and i
could not absorb any piece of knowledge
from
online learning and could not produce
any new content for my youtube
all i remember doing was just lazing
around and
scrolling through facebook and instagram
and tiktok with no intention in mind
i hate myself because i was not making
any progress
in my study my work or personal
development
i felt bad about feeling bad
it wasn’t okay to not feel okay
and i just miss my family
my friends and my vibrant life before
this disaster
at one point i gave in to those feelings
and burst into crying for 20 minutes
straight
why calling my best friend who was also
in lockdown in canada
turn out i wasn’t the only victim
my friend was also in serious stress as
well
and even in my darkest day i still
remember to take this precious
screenshot
because i know one day i’m going to be
talking about this one
so my friends was in lockdown in canada
and she felt a sense of guilty could not
continue
her part-time job and neither could she
focus on her study
according to unicef in 2019
from 8 to 29 of teenagers in vietnam
have problems with the mental health
other research
suggested that there are at least three
million
vietnamese teenagers facing mental
health issues
which is alarming and the most commonly
reported
reason is pressure
we legit constantly
attack by all sorts of external and
internal pressure every second we leave
it might be our parents who force us to
graduate with arna
to find a well-paid job it might be our
exceptional friends who just thinking
about
their achievements can make us feel so
small
or it might be the media has been
manipulating us
into believing and thinking that we must
acquire some certain achievements by a
certain age
in order to be considered successful and
happy
i remember coming across this article
while surfing the internet it says
why you are busy chatting online these
girls have bought their
cars and apartments wow
imagine feeling ashamed and having to
question your self-worth
after coming across a random article
written by someone you don’t know
about someone you don’t know as if
happiness and success were something one
size fit all
and could only be calculated by an
apartment
a car and can only be defined by a
certain group of people
globalization the media technological
advancements
economic developments and social
movements
have all contributed to make gen z an
unprecedentedly open
and receptive generation and with
openness
and receptiveness come vulnerabilities
the more external factors we come into
contact with
the more we need to be selective and to
add more futures into our life
to decide what
what and who can have a real impact on
our life
and how we should approach them
in the past it was the heinous word
the restricted socio-economic
background the harsh living condition
that deprived our grandparents or even
our parents
right to live their lives to their own
expectations
we the gen z by contrast
are so privileged thanks to the love
the effort the hard work the sacrifice
of our parents
we could go to piano classes we could
take english courses
and we have all sorts of technology and
facilities available at our fingertips
we’re probably the most privileged
generation
that our country has produced to date
and because we’re so endowed with so
many
privileges compared to our previous
generation
we are constantly under the pressure
only
succeed but to also achieve more than
what our parents and grandparents did
i bet we uh i bet we all uh
there seems to be no valid reason for us
to not succeed
because and if we fail who and what are
we going to blame except for ourselves
right we all want to be that person
who can speak three languages fluently
play at least one musical instrument
fashionable
tech savvy has a sense of humor
make a lot of friends and still maintain
a 4.0 gba at school and still have time
for family
we push ourselves to become that perfect
creature despite how well we know
it’s never going to happen i’m a bit
will
you or me might become that person one
day
but that one day is not tomorrow not
next week or next month
it takes time and we have limits
but so often we forget that we do
because we are so used to being in the
rat race
where people could go to airlines
just to move forward just to make
extraordinary steps
sometimes all we need to do is just slow
down
and listen to the energy
and the voices within and without
try listening to yourself figure out
what you want at the moment
set priorities and do not hesitate to
communicate your
pressure with your loved ones
bear in mind that failures are
inevitable
and what matters is how you harness your
energy
and approach and accept the failures
once you’ve come to realize that there
is always a lesson
to be grabbed from any experience or
incident in life
no matter how positive or negative you
will no longer
foster that unhealthy pressure to be
perfect
i’m not flexing i’m not boasting i’m not
bragging about anything
i’m just trying to emphasize
how much one or seemingly period of
stagnancy
or short rest you may call it
due to your mental health and your
productivity
i help myself a lot by just listen to
and gave myself a short break
the most extraordinary step i have taken
so far
is that bike and
next time you feel like you may need to
rest
or step back don’t panic just take it in
because because one famous leader once
said
it is necessary sometimes to step back
in order to take to step forward thank
you for your listen
you