On the Nature of Resilience (or Vice Versa)

A Palestinian woman protecting an olive tree from destruction (Source: intifada.de via Frank M. Rafik on Flickr)

Resilience is the only enduring stubbornness in this world, for it is the only one that is nurtured and sustained by and within nature, until it gradually becomes nature itself.

Just as the most destructive storm can’t prevent the sun from rising, so too the killing of all flowers cannot postpone spring — for every seed they scatter will eventually find its own path to sprout.

So there is actually nothing more wasteful of time and resources than the continuous attempt to extinguish the physical form resilience. It is inherent in the very fabric of nature, and thus perpetuates in the cycle of life — if it isn’t already nature, or life itself.