Resilience...

the ability to not only recover quickly to the original condition after being pulled, pressed or crushed (by adversities or hardship) but also to grow & become better.

Resilience involves positive coping, persistence, adaptation, and long-term success despite adverse circumstances. Resilient people usually have support from their schools, communities, and families.

How do you react to unexpected difficulties? Healthy, resilient people have stress-resistant personalities and learn valuable lessons from rough experiences. They rebound from major setbacks even stronger than before.

When hurt or distressed, resilient people expect to find a way to have things turn out well. They feel self-reliant and have a learning/coping reaction rather than the victim/blaming reaction that is so common these days.

We should study and understand how some youth succeed despite the overwhelming odds against them. We should learn how to build protective processes within and around us so that we can overcome risk at critical decision-making moments in our lives. We need to learn to deal with changes in life and deal with stressful or disadvantageous circumstances.