RIZVI: Being good enough — for you

Today, I logged into LinkedIn and saw that a friend of mine had just finished her finance internship with an esteemed corporation. I, as a retail worker that sells soap and a freelance writer, felt the gravity of failure pushing down on my head. “I just do not feel good enough” might as well be both mine and Gen-Z’s mantra. I have seen many of my highly intelligent, driven friends beat themselves up for being a “failure.” They failed to land X summer internship or get an “A” in Y class and fall into a spiraling sense of doom that their career is now, essentially, “over.” With the rise of social media, particularly with career networking tools like LinkedIn, we have never been more connected to potentially life-changing opportunities, to scope out our professional “competition” and present the most pristine, accoladed versions of ourselves. Despite knowing this, I have fallen into that “I am not good enough” trap, but interestingly enough, I have come to notice that this is just an ailment of humanity. I have seen adults well into their professional careers make posts about how they feel lost, how they have struggled to find purpose even later in…
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