FREE ENTRY / Be Still Media Foundation - Quarterly Competition

In the coming months and with renewed purpose, we will promote qualities that are distinctively human. We hope you will come along on this joint exploration, embracing our humanity, with beauty, clarity, and conviction.The Prompt

Simon Reeve spent a troubled and violent youth, ‘bouncing along the bottom for a long time,’ with anxiety, depression and an overall sense of lostness. As a teen, he stood at the end of a bridge, intending to jump. But instead, at the crucial moment, he stepped back. The fear of ending was stronger than the fear of going on.

Desperate and needing money, he applied for public assistance and found himself confiding to a jobs clerk that he was totally lost and didn’t know what to do. The kind stranger told him to ‘Take everything slowly, step-by-step.’

Those simple few words stuck with him and the wayward teen from the edges of inner-city London…