The new topic of our training under the program “Moral and value aspects of forming healthy lifestyle skills in youth” was “Inferiority complexes and their overcoming.”

Our trainer Mr. Oleksandr, in a discussion format with the teenagers, “figured out” why this feeling arises, and discussed the reasons for its occurrence. It is from how others evaluate us by appearance, abilities, and status that we often form an opinion about ourselves.

We must know that everything depends on us. It depends on what we believe in, who we “hear”. We will hear - “you are a loser!”. We will believe in it and so we will start to think about ourselves… or we will hear - “you, you can do it! I believe in you. I will help you…” Therefore, in order not to fall into the “abyss of inferiority”, we must understand that each of us is individual, a separate personality with our own external beauty, with internal abilities, values ​​that shape our status. We must remember that we can “throw” someone into the “abyss of complexes” with our words, actions, thinking that it is “cool”, doing it so that someone will like it, in order to “raise” our status… But is it worth it? After all, every action has its consequences.

It is within our power to be the one who will help another “get out of the abyss of complexes” with a kind word and support. The training, as always, was rich in real-life examples and interactive tasks that helped us to better “immerse” and understand the presented educational material.

To conclude today's post about our next training, with a story or a legend. Who knows how it really was. But it, in my opinion, perfectly conveys how the right words, the right support affect not only the life of an individual, but also the future of others, through this individual.

One day, a boy came home from school and gave his mother a letter from his teacher. The mother, with tears in her eyes, read the letter aloud to her son: “Your son is a genius. This school is too small, and there are no teachers here who can teach him anything. Please teach him yourself.” Many years after his mother’s death, the boy was looking through old family archives and accidentally came across this letter. He opened it and read: “Your son is mentally retarded. We can no longer teach him at school with everyone else. Therefore, we recommend that you teach him yourself at home.” The boy cried for several hours. Then he wrote in his diary: “Thomas Alva Edison was a mentally retarded child. However, thanks to his heroic mother, he became one of the greatest geniuses of his century.” I wish you all to meet such wise people on your life’s journey as Thomas Edison’s mother was.