How Resilience Affects Our Lives

Psychologists Carl Rogers, Albert Bandura (Schultz, 2017) and Viktor Frankl were right when they claimed that individuals have the power to overcome their circumstances. We are not helpless victims. Both Viktor Frankl and Alfred Adler are prime examples of people who resolved to work hard to overcome physical and environmental limitations and compensate for feelings of inferiority and helplessness.

In our society we see people who struggle against adverse circumstances every day. Take children for example. There are children who arrive at school perfectly dressed, well-fed and with all their physiological needs met and they are carrying invisible wounds. These are the children who suddenly act out and surprise people with their violence or cruelty. On the other hand, some children come from obvious disadvantages and have decided early on in their lives that they will survive, regardless.  I think that the children who come to school with invisible wounds must, like those whose disadvantages are obvious, decide on their own that they will survive and this decision shapes their personality as they grow.

Are you carrying invisible or visible wounds and have they affected your personal growth? Have you overcome adverse circumstances?

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