Psychological Resilience In The Film 'Rudy'

Psychological resilience is defined as an individual's ability to successfully adapt to life tasks in the face of social disadvantage or highly adverse conditions. The film “Rudy” provides one example, and role model, of someone coming back from a negative experience. In my own life, I have faced many hardships when it comes to family. Whether it often being a death in the family, which is quite often since Irish people seem to drop like flies, or a financial struggle that affects the peace between my parents. Since the age of three, I’ve more than likely attended over fifteen funerals, which is pretty morbid now that I think about it. More than half of these funerals were for family members on my mother’s side or family friends we met through the Irish community. I don’t know what it is about the Irish but we sure don’t last long. One particular death I remember being the absolute hardest, one of which I still find hard to talk about, was the death of my maternal grandfather. He and I were very close and my nickname for him was “Poppy” and his for me was “Dolly Dimples”. Poppy was someone who I truly loved. The bond we shared was something I’ll never have …show more content…
Through making connections, you accept help from those surrounding you and listen to you strengthening your resilience. I find this one to mean the most to me because for the first few years, I refused to speak to anyone about what happened. I couldn’t even mention his name. I was mad at the world, mad at God, for taking him away from me at such a young age. All I wanted was more time with him and proper chance to say goodbye. As I continued to get older and grow, I reached out to surrounding family members since I realized they, too, shared my grief. This is a prime example of how I became to close to my aunt because we both closed off after his death, only to speak to each other and help one another