Meaning Of Resilience
The True Meaning of Resilience
What is the definition of resilient to you? Flexible? Can adapt to any situation that person or thing is put in? How about Danielle Burt; a 30-year-old female surfer from San Diego who lost her leg in traumatic motorcycle accident. I read an article called, “First Female Above the Knee Amputee Surfer, Danielle Burt, Catches Wave,” that tells the reader about how a young woman at the top of her game, hits rock bottom after a bad turn that changes her life. But Burt shows resilience after finding out she was an above the knee amputee, by teaming up with the Navy Medical Center to create a modified leg, that allowed her to stand up when she surfed.
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She was determined in her dark times to see the light. “‘Once I found out my leg was gone, I felt like it was the end of the world. This was 11 years ago, so at that time, being an adaptive athlete wasn’t well known. I thought that my life was over,” (Constantinesco 5). But it wasn’t because she wouldn't let it be the end. “‘After being transferred to San Diego’s Sharp Memorial Hospital’s rehabilitation program for an intense month of inpatient physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech therapy, Burt finally got cleared to return to her San Diego area home,” (Constantinesco 7). Burt and I relate in ways like she lost a limb, a part of her life and I lost a little sister, just starting hers. Even though I didn’t know her that long, that’s a part of life that’s not there anymore. A piece of me gone. Like Danielle. She lost a leg! A piece of her that’ll never come back and it gets rough when you’re already down or if you’re at the peak of your life. Tests come at all times in our lives and it's up to us to walk out of that storm stronger than when we walked in. The term “dark times” for me means a time in which there was darkness, not times in which darkness took everything and stayed that way. Dark times can be overcome and brought back to light. I know what it's like to fall into a dark hole you can’t climb out of. You need someone to throw you a rope that no one else will provide. Dark times fall and can seem like they last for ever but they don’t. Danielle Burt proved that after she achieved something impossible and retired in it, helping others that went through the same thing she did. That’s the true meaning of
What is the definition of resilient to you? Flexible? Can adapt to any situation that person or thing is put in? How about Danielle Burt; a 30-year-old female surfer from San Diego who lost her leg in traumatic motorcycle accident. I read an article called, “First Female Above the Knee Amputee Surfer, Danielle Burt, Catches Wave,” that tells the reader about how a young woman at the top of her game, hits rock bottom after a bad turn that changes her life. But Burt shows resilience after finding out she was an above the knee amputee, by teaming up with the Navy Medical Center to create a modified leg, that allowed her to stand up when she surfed.
This story changed my perspective in life and it showed me that …show more content…
She was determined in her dark times to see the light. “‘Once I found out my leg was gone, I felt like it was the end of the world. This was 11 years ago, so at that time, being an adaptive athlete wasn’t well known. I thought that my life was over,” (Constantinesco 5). But it wasn’t because she wouldn't let it be the end. “‘After being transferred to San Diego’s Sharp Memorial Hospital’s rehabilitation program for an intense month of inpatient physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech therapy, Burt finally got cleared to return to her San Diego area home,” (Constantinesco 7). Burt and I relate in ways like she lost a limb, a part of her life and I lost a little sister, just starting hers. Even though I didn’t know her that long, that’s a part of life that’s not there anymore. A piece of me gone. Like Danielle. She lost a leg! A piece of her that’ll never come back and it gets rough when you’re already down or if you’re at the peak of your life. Tests come at all times in our lives and it's up to us to walk out of that storm stronger than when we walked in. The term “dark times” for me means a time in which there was darkness, not times in which darkness took everything and stayed that way. Dark times can be overcome and brought back to light. I know what it's like to fall into a dark hole you can’t climb out of. You need someone to throw you a rope that no one else will provide. Dark times fall and can seem like they last for ever but they don’t. Danielle Burt proved that after she achieved something impossible and retired in it, helping others that went through the same thing she did. That’s the true meaning of