Is Resilience Overrated?

What a great post!  We need to figure out how to become a society where we can be able to say "I'm overwhelmed" without feeling a stigma about it. Self-reliance has its points, but to be all alone in some of the things that have happened in the last few decades can be quite overwhelming for anybody, and when people feel like they can't admit it they often turn to more destructive behaviors and this perpetuates the cycle of a very overwhelming society that has lots of problems.
If we all could learn to help one-another and to care about one-another things would be so much better. This is a tall order of course, but it starts with each of us, and I try to do what I can.

Right now what I'm trying to do is some political stuff.  Frankly I am trying to get out the vote against Trump because he is one of the most uncompassionate people I can think of. Sorry to get political but I think this is my own top priority right now. At the same time I certainly try to make time for friends and family in good times and in tough times, and I feel that I am supported by them. (I have had some personal struggles because I'm kind of a misfit in most jobs despite my education because I have some personality quirks that might be Asperger's). A lot of my past bosses have been bullies but I have found some decent jobs with decent people up until I got furloughed in the pandemic. Now I'm looking for something once again and my family is very supportive not only financially but morally. They just want me to do the best I can, and they think that the work that I'm doing right now, although it's unpaid volunteer work, counts for something.
I hope this is a good example of the kind of interdependent and compassionate exchange of support for one-another that our society might be capable of if we put our minds to it. Of course the election will come and go, and hopefully we will boot Trump out of the White House in this election for the reasons I have said. After that I hope to work in childcare or tutoring, or possibly get back into librarianship, but I had many bully bosses in all these fields, so I will just keep persevering and looking, and in the meantime doing whatever volunteer work I can to help overcome the next challenges that the globe faces - like global warming and racism.  Now these problems are really big and I certainly hope that there will be plenty of other people to help shoulder the load and to support one another in our activism, including when we feel tired and discouraged so that we can help one another to keep up our spirits.
These are some of my ideas for ways that we can be resilient together instead of alone that will hopefully create a more compassionate society - the kind of society which I feel we desperately need.
Thank you again for a wise and wonderful article I hope to see you right many more such insightful articles.
Sincerely;
Francine Joy Allen

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I strive to make sure when I talk about resilience, I don't just focus on the personal but the societal responsibility. During this time, I have even more deeply recognized that my personal skills and resilience can be overwhelmed by "surge capacity" [a term from a recently shared article "Your ‘Surge Capacity’ Is Depleted — It’s Why You Feel Awful"].   As this article states: "I want people to be proud of themselves for being resilient. I just don’t want it to be the only option." Its important to be careful not to make resilience "code for ‘You’re on your own, sorry.’”

 

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