It always amazes me how kids can bounce back.  Last night as I was getting my son ready for bath time he slipped on the towel that I put down on the floor, smashing his head against the tub.  I picked up my crying son and comforted him, surveying the damage. 

He had banged his head pretty good leaving a huge goose egg right above his eye on this eyebrow.  After about five minutes of crying and me comforting him, he was ready to take his bath.  As he happily played, singing his favorite song.  I decided that the big goose egg above his eye, which was now a purplish-blue needed to be checked out.

Logan was more than happy to go “buh-bye” and enjoyed himself as he flirted with the women waiting in the emergency room waiting area, flashing his charismatic smile at them all.

It made me think about resilience, when did we as adults stop being able to bounce back so fast.  What is stopping us?  How much better would our lives be if we practiced the old adage of “if you fall of a horse, you get right back on”?

Life is filled with times when we are knocked off that proverbial horse.  Yet, often times self-doubt is what stops us from getting back on.  We start to doubt our decisions, our abilities, our commitment, even the core of ourselves.  However, aren’t those pitfalls of life just something that happens?  Do we always have to take them as a personal reflection of our own faults?

Life just happens, it has less to do with ourselves and more to do with the fact that it is just how it is.  If we had nothing but happy times…if our lives were filled with only good events, how would we grow from misfortunes?

Everything has two sides; it is the balance of life.  You cannot have up without down, right without left or good times with out bad times.  Even though you might find yourself down in the dumps, doesn’t it make you appreciated all the good things that you have in your life. 

In your life, you are going to have much to celebrate as well as times when you have to brush yourself off and start again. 

Resilience is one of those lessons that we need to learn from our children. 

Life is going to be filled with plenty of goose-eggs to the noggin, but don’t let them keep you down!

As for Logan, the swelling was almost gone by the next morning and you could barely see any traces of the fiasco the night before.  He didn’t let it break his stride one bit. 

Life is life, sometimes it going to be great and sometimes not so great…but, if you allow yourself to rebound from the bad stuff instead of falling into a pit of despair and self-doubt, you are going to get back to the good times all that much faster.