Is resilience built on kindness, confidence or bullsh#t?
What is resilience really?
Is it being able to pick yourself up after facing adversity? The ability to calm your mind when its spinning out of control? or even the ability to face grief and know that in time you will be OK.
I think it can mean different things, depending on the situation. I have been thinking about it a lot recently and as the title suggests I’m starting to find that its linked to 3 things but before delving into them let’s reflect on the importance of resilience, now more than ever.
We are more connected than ever through technology, but actually we are becoming more disconnected from each other. For social activities we play games on the internet, to go on a date you swipe left, to order your dinner you tap an app, to talk to each other you load up social media and send memes.
Alongside this disconnection we find ourselves in an ever growing selfish, cruel and challenging world, with global pandemics, wars, corrupt politics, social injustices, financial collapses and ever growing pressure for perfection its a tough place to live.
This mix of disconnection, lack of coping skills and dare I say hostile environment leads to some challenges we all have to face, without resilience many turn to coping methods such as addiction…
