Resilience is defined as "the ability of a living being to adapt to a disturbing agent or an adverse state or situation". In my case the state of greatest difficulty has been that of my health. In this sense I have found that life can hit you, throw you to the ground and even spit on you while you are there, but your growth depends on facing with courage and courage that 'monster' that is sometimes 'reality'.
Each person lives a different reality and goes through this book that we call life, and its chapters, with the tools that he has at his disposal and with them he crosses walls, builds buildings and forms connections. Sometimes the problem is that we do not know how to use them or we do not find them or-in the worst case - we decide to stop looking for them. In my case my 'tools' were people and moments without which today I could not walk, I could not say that I am a professional, I could not affirm everything I write in this blog.
In my personal case I have seen that what life does is making us face situations that appear as difficulties to test our ability to bend and not break. In this sense life presented me with a situation that made me change more than my way of thinking, it made me learn the importance of not staying on the floor when you fall, but to get up more strongly.
I once read a phrase that said something similar to this: "when you fall, it is mandatory to get up again." I could not understand it until I had to live it -real and hypothetically-. I fell while playing football. I fell while climbing stairs. I even fell when I was trying to get up. But what makes me today to be who I am, to think as I think and to live as I live, have been each and every one of the falls that I have had in life, because they have not been failures, they have been teachings.
"In the struggle between the stream and the rock, the stream always triumphs. Not because it is very strong, but because it perseveres."
H. Jackson Brown
Facing difficult situations in health, love, finances, family, is not a personal choice, but if it is something that all people go through at a certain point in life, and to some extent define how reality is understood and perceived. Here I learned that reality can play with your mind, as much as you can play with it. You can choose how to feel in front of her, I chose to enjoy every day despite 'everything negative', I made the choice to create my own reality, I chose to live with a diagnosis, not a disease; I chose to live with different abilities, not with disabilities; I chose to get up, not stay on the floor.
Life is not about suffering-as those who say that we came to this-claim. Grow, fall, get up, dream, enjoy and go beyond despite the stumbles... Resist when life bends you, this is the real reason.
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