Resilience

Resilience is the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties. It takes a special person to realize what it takes to re resilient, a survivor. To be resilient one of the biggest parts is being able to not get offended or when something pisses you off. People have to avoid to think like a victim and the whole world is against you. That’s why it is hard to be resilient because most people can’t cope with it.

When you are a survivor you have to scavenge for food, you are the only thing that will keep you alive. A victim is someone that would sit on the raft and tell themselves that they are going to die and doesn’t even try to stay alive. The things that Louie did to be a survivor is telling himself that he can do this, that they were going to be fine. Having the resilience to remain calm while the sun is beating on him, and having no food or water. He had to sit there surrounded by sharks saying to himself that he was fine. Because Louie was a survivor this wasn’t that hard for him, he was the one that kept them alive with his mentality.

Being able to remain calm and humble in what Louie went through is remarkable. In the book Unbroken Louie’s plane had crashed in the middle of the ocean and he has to survive with two other people. After being stuck on the water some one came to help them even though it wasn’t help. They became war prisoners. Being able to be calm and cool in an even like that is actually very hard and most people can’t do it. But Louie can and he was faced with some of the toughest challenges. A survivor is not just someone who can live, it goes way deeper than that. A survivor is someone who is strong, relies on himself to live, courageous. And that is why I think that being a survivor not a victim is the best characteristic.

There are other characteristic that make up resilience but you need to be a survivor in life. You have to be the one that grabs life by the reins and do what you want to do to survive. Survival is a tricky thing in this life and that’s why if you can learn this trait early, you will be all set. People don’t realize that things don’t get handed to you in the real world, you have to be you’re own survivor. To be able to live through being a prisoner of war with no hope of getting out, you still can’t for get who you have to be to get out of a situation like that, a survivor.