Resiliency
In my community psychology class we had an interesting question this week and it got me thinking. I started to wonder what other people thought of this topic. So here I am asking my friends opinions:
What characteristics would you say create the most resilient adult? How were these demonstrated in your life or in the life of someone you know?
I will put my opinion in a comment and am looking forward to what you folks have to say.
xxooo
Rae
What characteristics would you say create the most resilient adult? How were these demonstrated in your life or in the life of someone you know?
I will put my opinion in a comment and am looking forward to what you folks have to say.
xxooo
Rae
posted by Rae at 11:15 AM
1 Comments:
My gut reaction to this question is support. If a person receives support and nurturing through the early communities, family, grammar school, and secondary school, they will have the necessary tools to become part of a support system and bounce back from anything. This, however, does not explain those individuals who don’t have the support from cradle to adult who just keep pulling themselves up by their bootstraps.
While support is a great help, the person must have a strong determination, an easygoing temperament, and perhaps most important, a realistic view of ones strengths and weaknesses. With out these personality traits the adversity that one goes through will just beat down the individual until they become helpless to help themselves.
If I were born in an earlier century, I would have been called frail. I have a plethora of health issues that I have been dealing with since I was a teen. I take more medications than my 70-year-old parents. I have been a hairs breath from death several times. At 16 they told me I wouldn’t live to see 30. At 30 they told me I wouldn’t live past 45. I am on the verge of a new era in my life as I head towards graduation and a new set of parameters for me. At 45 I am looking forward to proving them wrong again. If anyone is making a prediction as to my life expectancy this time I'm not listening! (picture the chic form Saturday Night Live with her fingers in her ears while la-la-la-ing to drown out what she doesn’t want to hear)
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