Resilience
- Ability to recover readily from illness, depression, adversity, or the like; buoyancy.
There are a few terms bandied about the world as to what, if absent, one hasn’t got anything. Health is a big one, another one is a healthy brain. Hard to argue with those, for sure. One I would add ~ between the two, I think, second only to healthy brain ~ would be resilience. Without it, one doesn’t get up when knocked down. That’s definitive. Following are excellent example of resilient people demonstrating remarkable resilience.
Examples of Resilience in Film
- A Single Man
- Affliction
- Alien Nation
- Cast Away
- Death and the Maiden
- Fair Game
- Far and Away
- Harold and Maude
- Hope Floats
- Larry Crowne
- Major League
- Places in the Heart
- Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
- Rabbit Hole
- Rounders
- The Color Purple
- The Day After Tomorrow
- The Door in the Floor
- The Lord of the Rings
- The Pianist
- The Road
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Warrior
- We Are Marshall
- White Oleander
- Win Win
“resilience.” Dictionary.com Unabridged. 18 Dec. 2011. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/resilience>.
Libra, INTP, English Major, 
Back from a seriously scary health relapse in mid-October and returning to action. Kudos to my patient friends and colleagues, you're the best. New programs and more unrolling this year, here's to 2012!
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