Life isn’t meant to be constantly laborious, but it isn’t meant to be easy. The assumption that it is meant to be easy will make it feel laborious. When boundary setting and self-advocacy goes so far that we develop an allergy to the chaos of human existence, we have lost our resilience.

Whilst previous generations may have had an unhealthy excess of resilience, the pendulum has swung so far that current generations have landed in deficiency. “Resilience” has indeed been weaponised against victims of the system for centuries, but resilience itself is not bad.