SURVIVORS

OUR DAILY WISDOM WORD TODAY IS  SURVIVOR.  A SURVIVOR IS A HERO,  THEY HAVE BEEN THROUGH TRAUMA AND EXPERIENCES THAT OTHERS HAVEN’T.  LIFE IS FULL OF SURPRISES.  WHEN WE ARE BORN AND SOMEONE IS OUR MOTHER OR/AND FATHER, WE DON’T GET TO CHOOSE.  OFTEN SURVIVORS ARE INDIVIDUALS WITH WISDOM.  WE ALL HAVE “SURVIVAL” INSTINCTS”.  IF WE ARE A SURVIVOR, WE HAVE FALLEN.  I VISUALIZE AS A SURVIVOR WHO HAS INTERNAL BRUISES, WHEN LIVING A LIFE WITH CHARACTER, CHALLENGES, HEARTACHE, PAIN, ILLNESS, DYSFUNCTION, ABUSE, RELATIONSHIPS  AND EXPERIENCES. 

A SURVIVOR HAS BEEN THROUGH ALL OF THESE, AND SOMEHOW MANAGES TO GET TO THE OTHER SIDE.  A SURVIVOR HAS SPECIFIC TOOLS THAT HAVE PREPARED THEM TO HANDLE THE LOSSES LIFE SHOWS US.  A SURVIVOR IS MORE THAN COMING OUT ON THE OTHER SIDE OF HORRIBLE LOSS OR TRAGEDY.

THEY ARE INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE HAD ENORMOUS CHALLENGES TO COPE WITH AND GET THROUGH THEIR EXPERIENCE THE WORST OF THE WORST IN LIFE.  WE ALL CAN BE SURVIVORS OF ONE EXPERIENCE.  A SURVIVOR, HOWEVER HAS BEEN THROUGH MANY EXPERIENCES,  IN THE MIDST OF EACH CHALLENGE, THEY DO FALL DOWN JUST AS WE ALL DO.  THEY HAVE EXPERIENCED IN MANY CASES HORRIBLE, HURTFUL AND CRUSHING BLOWS.  WE CAN GET TO THE OTHER SIDE.  WE WILL FALL IN LIFE.  WHAT CREATES A SURVIVOR IS HOW THEY MANAGE TO FALL, BUT GET BACK ON THE HORSE, SO TO SPEAK. 

THEY CAN SURVIVE ANYTHING AND HAVE A CERTAINTY IN THEMSELVES THAT NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS, THEY WILL COME OUT ON THE OTHER SIDE, STAND UP, AND BECOME MORE NOT BECAUSE OF A TRAGIC EXPERIENCE, BUT IN SPITE OF IT.  THEY USUALLY HAVE MANAGED BUT CHOOSE TO LOOK AT THESE EXPERIENCES TO CHANGE THEIR PERSPECTIVE. 

THERE IS SOMETHING IN THEIR EYES CALLED “DETERMINATION”.  THEY HANDLE REJECTION FLOURISHING FROM IT.  THEY SEE A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL THAT WE CAN’T SEE. SURVIVORS THE HOPE AND BELIEF IN SELF THAT THEY NOT ONLY GO THROUGH THIS HORRIBLE LIFE EXPERIENCE THEY GAINED EACH AND EVERY TIME AND GROW FROM IT IN CHARACTER AND WITH DIGNITY.  SURVIVORS ARE INDIVIDUALS WHO KNOW WHAT TO DO IN A CRISIS HAVING THE STRENGTH FOR THEMSELVES AND THOSE AROUND THEM.  IT DOESN’T MATTER IF THEY HAVE SUFFERED. TO THEM THEY HAVE WOUNDS BUT THEY HAVE HEALED FROM INTERNAL SCARS AND  FIND A WAY TO WIN. 

SURVIVORS ARE THOSE INDIVIDUALS WE SEE FOR EXAMPLE, IF THEY ARE IN A WHEELCHAIR AND ARE OPTIMISTIC AND POSITIVE, IN SPITE OF THEIR SHORTCOMINGS.  SURVIVORS ARE NOT INDIVIDUALS WHO ALLOW THEMSELVES TO GET IN THEIR OWN WAY AND ARE NOT BORN AS A SURVIVOR.  THEY ARE CREATED OVER EXPERIENCES AND AT ALL TIMES COUNT THEIR BLESSINGS AND DO NOT FEEL SORRY FOR THEMSELVES WHEN THINGS DON’T GO THEIR WAY. 

INSTEAD, THEY TAKE THE INVISIBLE CUES IN LIFE AND LET IT LEAD THEM BUT DECIDE TO BECOME A BETTER BECAUSE OF THESE AND HOW THEY COPE. ARE YOU A SURVIVOR?  LEAVE COMMENTS AND LIKES BELOW THE POSTS IN THE “JOIN THE DISCUSSION AREA” OR SHARE A POEM ON SURVIVORS.  IT IS THROUGH SHEER WILL AND DETERMINATION, NEVER GIVING UP AFTER A FALL  THEY ALWAYS FIND A WAY TO A SOLUTION.  ARE YOU A SURVIVOR?   SHARE WITH US WHY IN THE COMMENTS SECTION BELOW.  THANK YOU SO MUCH, SAMANTHA

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