On Resilience.

“You cannot do this journey without being resilient.”

I have heard this a lot, and now I understand better why this warning always comes with certain dreams and certain paths.

As a nursing student, and as someone trying to delulu her way into doing the work that truly matters to her. Dreams, we call them. I can tell you that every day and every week demands a level of resilience, not just to survive, but to live it fully.

I see resilience as an elastic band. It is life stretching you as far as it can, testing your limits from every direction, and somehow, you still snap back and keep moving like business as usual.

Maybe that is what Asake means by being “stubborn”. Or being “Giran”.

And honestly, it can be funny sometimes. Life deals you the worst cards or impossible odds, and somehow you still keep pushing, trying not just to overcome it, but to create something meaningful from it, even when you look foolish in the moment.

But when you read the stories of people who eventually became something remarkable, whether they started from scratch or had certain privileges, there is always a point in their journey where they had to withstand a storm before they could finally see sunshine.

So anytime life starts looking cloudy and you feel tempted to run back to what seems safer or easier, remember the bigger picture.

If you remove the doubt, fear, and insecurity, what is it that you truly want to become?

Because whatever that destination is for you, if enduring that storm is what pushes you closer to it, then going back cannot remain an option. You have to learn how to push through and stay long enough to see the other side of the journey.

And there will be many storms.

So build that self-conviction. Build the kind of belief that reminds you that you can reach your destination, that you have what it takes, and that resilience is sometimes just deciding, over and over again, that you will not stop moving forward.