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How do you get through tough
can either bend or break.
times, struggles, and disappointments? Sometimes the pain is
Resilient people encounter
so great that it’s difficult to
storms too. The difference is they
understand how you’ll make it
encounter the storms like the
through another day. When you’re
palm tree. If you are resilient you
sad and hurting it’s almost
can survive any storm no matter
impossible to see what good will
how devastating! The palm tree’s
come from a situation that brought
resilience fascinated me and
you so much unhappiness.
although there are many things
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we can learn from them, two
While I was watching a documentary
important facts stood out for me:
on the devastation caused by a
hurricane, I couldn’t help but notice that everything was gone,
but the palm trees stood tall.
Palm trees bend they
While the storm was raging, the
don’t break. Nobody likes
wind blew the palm trees right to
change. Change is hard,
the ground and it looked like they
unfamiliar and often overwhelm-
were going to snap, however,
ing. Change happens just like a
they didn’t. Sometimes storms
hurricane. It is sudden, its quick
happen. There is nothing you can
and it disrupts our equilibrium.
do about it. When storms hit we
When we don’t have a strong
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Issue 10 | NOV 2011
Your mate, Sir Peter Charles Leitch
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