According to the Oxford Dictionary resilience is defined as the ability to recover readily from illness, depression, adversity, or the like; buoyancy.
Resilience is all about being able to overcome the
unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to
thrive. Jamais Cascio
What makes one person able to get over a tragedy or difficult situation quicker and in better form than the next? What operates within them that helps one person to cope and the other not cope? These are some of the questions that come to mind when I think of resilience. It is that little voice inside that keeps saying you can do it, okay so you fell get up back on your feet on keep going, so, this is where it is at it is sink or swim and you choose to swim. That's the stuff of resilience. Some people get their pink slips from their employers and they go home and straight to bed and stay there for the next month, a resilient person will just look at her slip as an obstacle to be overcome knowing that the quicker it is overcome the better, so they start pounding the pavement or start their own business they just keep going.
It is like faith in tomorrow, faith in I can do better, belief that life is about ups and downs and it is not always up and not always down so you're down now you keep moving knowing you are going on another upswing. Resilience is about shaping your mind as an obstacle blaster.
When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage
and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with
failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only
need to find them and move on with our lives.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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