Building Resilient Spirit

Good evening everyone, I am happy for the privilege given to me to share with everyone here on the Topic before us "Resilient Spirit"

In this broken generation, where all around us is doubt, fear, disappointments and discouragement we need more than just a pep talk to keep on going

What do we mean by the English word "Resilient "

        "Able to endure tribulation without cracking".

Resilient spirit which I will call the Super Trait of greatness is encrypted in the genetic makeup of every living organism. According to evolution theory only the most Resilient (Strong) survive

According to this theory organisms that can't withstand this rigor are made to become extinct Of all the creation of God, Human is the most equipped for adaptation, ability to adjust to any kind of condition.

 Please don't mind my metaphors I believe we will all understand well at the end

Every living organism try as much as possible  to adjust to a constant state of equilibrium which keeps the generation of this living organism to keep existing.

Fishes for example breed in large quantities in order to overcome the probability of their species of been eaten up totally by strong preys, octopuses and chameleon change skin color to adapt  to  back ground to in order to escape predators.

All living organism in one way or the other has developed a mechanism that it is well adapted to to ensure continuity

All organisms have the instinct of going on and not giving up irrespective of the odds They know primarily that the moment they quit signals the end to their species.
    Now let us come back to us human the arc of creation made to dominate aren't we supposed to be far advanced in our abilities ?

No wonder the bible said to the sluggard man to go to the ant and consider it ways and be wise

   Resilience is inbuilt in every Human on the face of the earth but it is a feature that is rarely used. There is a superhero in everyone of us caged in the prison of fear and uncertainty in our mind, prevented from expression. A Resilient spirit is not foreign to us, it has been a part of us from the day we are born. I will call it an Inner Stubbornness that gives us the hunch to keep fighting despite the odds

When our minds is still primitive and we could not think for ourselves this spirit within us express itself not with standing We learnt how to crawl, walking and run by been resilient  (Refusing to give up despite many failed trials) but here we are today we can all see the fruit of our resilient spirit back then, we all walk as if we have never fail at walking before. But yet now we are grown up only to silence the engine within that keeps us gearing forward. Imagine a kid giving up on learning how to walk, Imagine how sad the parent of that kid will be.

If our strength is not drawn from within then the heaviness without will crush us

 Resilient spirit is the gas within that keep our engine firing, why call it a quit when we are about to start?

  We all have encountered life crisis that will naturally break our will, yes there are times I prefer been dead than enduring the agonies before us, we have had situations where the cup is too bitter to drink. We all had our shares of it and will still have more.

   We can't take all this away from life but we can reconstruct our minds, we can awaken the sleeping superhero, we could set him free from His cage. The pages of History is filled with men and women who has more than enough reasons  to give up and lay low but they chose to follow the undecorated  Hero within and hereby changed the course of History through this singular attitude.

HERE I HAVE A TASK FOR EVERYONE: MENTION 2 PEOPLE WHO THEIR RESILIENCY IS AN INSPIRATION TO YOU

Martin Luther King Jr

Israel Joseph

 Barack Obama

Folorunsho Alakija

I would like to share a wonderful piece of poem from Maya Angelou titled

"Still I rise"

You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may trod me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?

Why are you beset with gloom?

’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells

Pumping in  my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,

With the certainty of tides,

Just like hopes springing high,

Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?

Bowed head and lowered eyes?

Shoulders falling down like teardrops,

Weakened by my soulful cries?

Does my haughtiness offend you?

Don't you take it awful hard

’Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines

Digging’ in my own backyard.

You may shoot me with your words,

You may cut me with your eyes,

You may kill me with your hatefulness,

But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Out of the huts of history’s shame

I rise

Up from a past that’s rooted in pain

I rise

I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,

Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear

I rise

Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear

I rise

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,

I am the dream and the hope of the slave.

I rise

I rise

I rise.

All those we look up to for inspiration feel many times when learning to walk the walk of Greatness, many tried walking like them but quit on the way, what kept them going was their unyielding spirit to defeat and Resilient spirit to bounce back when they are been crushed by life

Jesus had a bitter Cup before Him but instead of quitting He drank it for the greater good of all man, it is not an easy thing to remain positive while all things around seems negative, but this positivity within determines the outcome of the negativity around

   We may be down now but we are not out yet. We may be suffering a temporary defeat but we are not on a final defeat, we quitting  is the only final defeat, whenever we are knocked down we will not stay on the ground, we keep standing up with the strength and attitude of a winner, we will always bounce back.

I want us all to note this --> Tough situations only bring out the best creativity in solving diverse problem we encounter through life, without them we won't make a difference in Human race, embrace your conditions and seek to overcome it with positivity!

Tough times don't last but Tough people do

With this I say thank you to everyone one for your attention and response may the good God Father of all bless you!

ADEBAYO VICTOR