Tick Mark and Resilience

Different symbols have different meanings although the meaning could be contextual and vary. Here, I want to discuss a tick mark symbol, which I guess most have been using since childhood. Tick mark is usually used to indicate that an answer is correct or an option of a response at which a tick mark is place is applicable to the person tick marking.

A tick mark gave me another meaning also. If I place a tick mark on a graph it gives me a meaning of resilience. The term resilience has been a buzz word in academia and development, community resilience, household resilience, resilience to climate change so and so forth. An entity is considered resilient if it bounces or has the capacity to bounce back after hitting by shock or stress. Once an entity is hit by a shock or stress the current level of capacity of an entity could come down from the left tip of a tick mark to the lowest point of it. But, as time elapses and the context improves, gradually the capacity of an entity could also increase from the lowest point of a tick mark to its highest point. It could increase further as there is no hard and fast limitation of the tip of a tick mark. The resilient capacity could vary from an entity to another. Some may bounce back quickly and others may take a long time. However, in the natural process, an entity could face a shock or stress and could come back to its previous level or better situation as a tick mark. Thus, I wish everyone to be like a tick mark.