RESILIENCE IN MOTION

NATIONAL YOUTH DAY - JAN 12

- ANISHA KHATUN, OP

Youth is all about boundless energy, courage, creativity, and potential to drive change and overcome challenges.

Every skinned knee, failed exam, or heartbreak is followed by an almost gravitational pull back to hope. The young haven't yet learned the vocabulary of permanent defeat, so they translate setbacks into verbs—try again, pivot, start over. Their brains are still wiring themselves, their stories still unbound by the thick scar tissue of precedent; this neurological and narrative plasticity lets them bend without breaking, to turn whiplash change into raw propulsion. In a single semester they can lose a parent, change cities, and still laugh at a meme before the tear tracks are dry, proving that resilience isn't just the capacity to endure but the instinct to keep tasting the future before the past has fully formed.

Ahead of National Youth Day, some young achievers share with Sunday POST their journeys, challenges and how they managed to turn their dreams into reality.

'You do not need a perfect plan to begin'