Resilience.

Resilience.

It’s something we all need a little of these days.

We are in it for the long haul, we’ve made it this far- and we can’t give up now.

These are words that I’m using ALOT these days, but they are words I’ve used so, so many times in the past, too.

I have literally had my ass handed to me a hundred times, on a hundred different days on many past expeditions. There’s been times when I was sure I couldn’t continue, times when I was sure it was over. I mean, really. REALLY believing I was finished. But, there would always be this small, tiny, microscopic flame of hope in me that would compel me to get up. To start another day. To keep going. To keep pushing. 

It took a long time and many expeditions (I’m stubborn!) to learn that this was basically ‘resilience’. Slowly, but surely...one expedition after another, one beating after another, I learned to become resilient.

I learned that through commitment and perseverance I could overcome huge obstacles. I could finish what I set out to do.

These days, I think often about past expeditions and what I’ve learned. 

I think the most important lesson I’ve learned over and over, is that human beings really are capable of extraordinary things. I don’t mean me. I mean us. In each and every one of us is the capacity to overcome this huge challenge we are faced with.

We just need to keep it up. We can’t give up. 

Limits on your freedom of movement and an old life that seems so far in the distant past, combined with an uncertain immediate future can be overwhelming. But if we stick to the ‘plan’ the experts have given us, we will make it to the other side of this. 

Stronger and wiser.