Resilience: Resist, reinvent and succeed

Resilience is widely used nowadays to emphasize strength, effort, and perseverance in the face of adverse situations, which we support and even strengthen, by challenging creativity to reinvent ourselves.

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This may sound very familiar, even every day, but it leads us to reflect on the essence and characteristics of resilient people and how they have increased in recent years due to global and local socio-economic and political crises.

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Resilience originated in 1982 in the field of psychology, referring to the capacity of people to resist, develop and overcome restrictive, hostile, or risky conditions and contexts in the personal, family, and/or social sphere to which they were exposed.

In some cases, it is seen as a reaction to fortuitous causes, in others as a disposition or state that is oriented towards subsistence and adaptation to change, in both cases the vision of a better future and self-esteem are often the inspiration and pedestal for being resilient. Because of the complexity and turbulence of these times, it is easy for us to identify with and see ourselves reflected in some of them.

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What is necessary to be resilient?

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Resilience is present in one way or another innately in people, and there are contrasting positions in relation to what some call characteristics and others call competencies.

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I share a non-exhaustive summary that includes both, among them: self-control, personal autonomy, sense of humor, creativity, willingness and ability to learn, optimism, flexibility, perseverance, discipline, the vision of the future, objectivity, self-esteem (resilient ego), sense of belonging, communication, empathy, social relations, cooperation, among others.

All of the above is multifactorial and interdependent support that originates in the personal, family, and social context, in order to achieve a better psychosocial adaptation and personal improvement, in other words, it is what stimulates and helps us to react, fight and give our best to the activities we carry out in order to achieve the proposed goals.

Undoubtedly, life has situations that we may not be able to predict or avoid and can cause strong impacts and unexpected or undesired results, for example, the Covid 19 pandemic, socio-economic crises, war conflicts, accidents, natural disasters, diseases, among others, however, the difference lies largely in how we react and reinvent ourselves in the face of what happens.

Resilience can be seen as the platform and energy to push ourselves, sustain ourselves, and move forward in spite of circumstances.

There are many examples of resilient people, more than we can imagine, close and distant, known and unknown, including ourselves, everyone has their own story of life, effort, and overcoming, for this reason, let this post serve as a recognition to all of them.

Cheer up, if we can, let's keep going!

See you soon dear friends of Hives!