Resilience

The term resilience comes from the Latin verb resilire, which means to bounce, jump back. Ability to react to trauma and difficulties, recovering the psychological balance through mobilization of inner resources and positive reorganization of the personality structure. This is the tragic story of a territory in Calabria (Italy) where the government ordered the construction of an immense factory back in 1975 which, fortunately, after only 2 months was abandoned due to severe environmental problems. At the time I was just a kid and the first time I saw it my throat tightened giving me a sense of rebellion that still pervades me. Resilience is also the quality of an ecological system to return to its initial state, after being subjected to a disturbance that has changed that state, but in these long 50 years the wound has not healed yet. I embarked on this inner journey to be able to effectively face the pain and disappointments of a social system contaminated by the mafia, metabolize it and perhaps also to gain new impetus by working on adversity. Helped by my family and my best friend, I start listening to this place by creating a positive emotional relationship that will help me cultivate inner resources, such as self-confidence. I feel a cocoon inside me that I consciously hope will become a butterfly over time. You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and try to change the ending.