Finding Balance: A Young Woman's Journey Towards Mental Endurance

The first steps into the world of work can certainly be exhilarating for most young women, but quite often, they can turn out to be equally daunting.

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The fast-evolving marketplace, coupled with personal obligations, sociable undertakings, and self-care practices, all need to be taken care of simultaneously; achieving a healthy equilibrium among them feels exactly like juggling with glass balls. In this day and age, one requires a high degree of mental fortitude—to succeed, and even to remain sane.

The Unseen Stress

The goals that one strives for are often clubbed as achievements, highlighting the single minded focus society has on puzzling over the mental wellbeing of women. To put it bluntly however, society likes putting labels like anxiety and burnout to the baseline mental condition of most women, alongside a fear they all harbor which many prefer to ignore: will I ever be enough? The expectation to perform in all life domains is simply inescapable—and is it not true in the form of unrealistic family social media and work-driven goals that keep flooding in and expecting to be tackled overnight.