Yes, Resilience Leads To Recovery

 

Even before 2025 kicked in, a majority of forecasts and predictions, if you may, pointed to countless ominous [call it shockingly tragic] events that will hit our global village.  We DON'T need to look farther from the time Syria's long-time dictator Bashar a-Assad was overthrown just before 2024 ended in December.  Of course, we're aware that over there in Eastern EU, both Russia and Ukraine continue to be embroiled in their own regional war.  And WHEN 2025 finally unfolded, natural disasters hit us, from the floods and earthquakes in India and the Philippines to the countless earthquakes hitting almost all corners of the world📗📙📘

Yesterday's breaking news was altogether shockingly unique.  NBA Miami Heat ballclub's Coach Erik Spoelstra was still airborne [from an on-the-road game with Denver Nuggets and his chartered flight's ETA in Miami, Florida was 510am.  To his utter shock, WHEN he landed, his home at Coral Way, Miami-Dade County, an upscale neighborhood in Miami, Florida was literally engulfed in flames [since around 430am WHEN Miami's firefighters responded to a distress call].  OMG, no one amongst us wants to be in Erik Spoeltra's shoes that very moment, arriving at your home in the wee hours of the morning, WHEN you are mentally, emotionally and physically drained [after Miami Heat's loss to Denver Nuggets the night before] only to arrive with your home literally in flames.  p.s. In tonight's [US EST] press conf, Erik Spoelstra had his 3 kids with him.  Our heart melts for tragedies like this💚💛💜

Just two days earlier, Cebu province in the Philippines was severely hit by floods rising up to the roof levels of two-storey home structures.  Even the hardest souls would have softened WHEN I watched multiple footages of the extreme tragedies, including one footage I watched WHEREIN a husband was giving a CPR [Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation] to his [almost lifeless] wife atop the roof of their submerged house even WHILE torrential rains were still raging alongside the furious winds of the typhoon.  WHOSE hardened heart will NOT soften and melt with all these tragedies?  And this brings us to that dire need for us to hone our RESILIENCE so that we can be led back to RECOVERY!!!

Given all these harsh realities of life, it behooves that we choose to see these setbacks in life as our learning opportunities instead of looking at it as something that will kick us back to square one.  Taking the shame and blame out of a setback supports us to hold onto hope and see that hard experience as a teacher.  And part of healing is allowiing ourselves to feel all our feelings, including those incessant pains❎❎❎

Our takeaway:  It is NOT sufficient to recognize the bumps we hit on the roads we travel BUT we gotta remember it as part of the process.  And WHEN we believe this, we can get back up more easily.  YES, RESILIENCE is our ability to bounce back after an adversity.  RESILIENCE building supports us to manage adversity.  In fact, going through it can reinforce our RESILIENCE.  And like strengthening our muscles, that will help to lead us back towards that road to RECOVERY💚💛💜