Resilience: the cure against the COVID-19 coronavirus

Resilience, the cure against the COVID-19 coronavirus | Discover how resilience transforms difficulties into opportunities and prepares us for new challenges

Turning difficulties into opportunities makes us ready for new challenges and to identify new paths.

Solitude, silence, and plenty of time available. The fear of never finding our normality again, amplified by the fact that the whole world is experiencing the same situation. The pandemic is wiping out all our certainties, but resilience will be useful to cure the COVID-19 virus. For this reason, it is necessary for each of us to live this biological stop as a moment of reflection, observation, and construction. This deep crisis of the human being must become an initiation rite leading to a higher level of awareness. An awareness until now hidden, which made us lose the ability to see the horrors caused by the inappropriate use of our intelligence. An intelligence capable of unleashing its weapons to find a cure for the COVID-19 coronavirus. Among these, a very powerful human weapon is precisely resilience, the ability to change our normality by transforming difficulties into opportunities. A dynamic adaptation process that leads to a positive change, making us strong in the face of new challenges. In a moment of great planetary difficulty, resilient is the one who knows how to identify new goals with motivation and harmony; those inclined to change without considering it a threat; people able to make timely decisions while navigating uncertain situations. Resilience is inherent in the human species; those who think they lack this ability just need to develop it, facing difficulties as a path of individual and collective growth. And in this sense, the forced quarantine of entire populations is already bringing some positive results: it is forcing people in difficulty to redesign their life path, finding a better balance with themselves, with those around them, and with Mother Nature. But one reaction that has led to an improvement, destined to become lasting, is the acceleration in the use of technology at all levels. It’s as if we have finally understood that the use of technology can have nobler purposes, positively changing our daily habits. In a moment of crisis, technology has become our most advantageous aid, allowing the continuity of our activities. Today it is widely used: smart working in Public Administration, in business and professional work; remote teaching in universities and schools; online shopping in all commercial sectors. A total interconnection that amplifies and enhances the concept of network and community able to become the meeting point between new needs and products/services, giving space to new social and economic dynamics.