Marie Curie As A Very Resilient Person

Resilience is the act off bouncing back adversity. This could mean that how someone goes through bad events in their life. The person that had a lot of resilience is Marie Curie. Marie Curie is a talented physicist, chemist and one of the first people to study radiation. She found 2 new radioactive elements polonium and radium, which is unknown at that time. She also the first woman to ever get both Physics and Chemistry Nobel Price in 1903 and 1911. She studied the character of radium throughout her lifetime, finding its various properties and investigating its medical potential. However, because of her extensive work with radioactive matter, blood disease killed her in 1934. Besides her excellent scientific achievements, she also had a really rough life too. Born in 1867, in Warsaw, Poland, Marie Curie is the youngest. She had three older sisters and a brother. Her parents were teachers, and they also expect their children to be well educated. Curie’s mother was in tuberculosis in 1878. This left a huge impact on Curie. This gave her a big, continuing depression, and changed her views on religion. She no longer believed in the benevolence of God,’. In secondary school, Curie excelled in her study. In 1883, she graduated secondary school, and get the top marks. As much as they wanted to enrol in a university, the uni back then, don’t accept female students. But, to reach their dream, Curie, and her sister, Bronya went abroad and seek for another uni. Lack of financial ability, she has to find a part-time job to support her sister, Bronya. She worked as a private tutor and governess. Besides that, she still spent her time reading about chemistry and physics. After five years, she finally earned a substantial amount of money to support her abroad study in Paris. She studied at Sorbonne. But since she is not that rich, so she had to eat buttered bread and tea every day to deal with her situation. In 1895, Marie married a brilliant scientist, namely Pierre. They both devoted to each other. They had become one of the biggest scientific duos in the world. She got two daughters, Irène Joliot-Curie and Ève Curie. Sadly, in 1906, Pierre passed away because of a road accident. Marie now faced this tremendous grief, but she had to resist this and took his position in the school. After the incident, Marie had quite a successful life with another chemistry Nobel prize and world recognition. But then, life hit her with another problem. She was opposed by another male french scientist, which made her lost a huge chunk of her own money In 1920, her health started to dwindle. She was diagnosed with blood cancer, due to her continuous exposure to radioactive matters and she died on July 4, 1934.

It’s undoubtedly true that Marie Curie is a very resilient person, but the person around her is also contributing a huge role too. After her mother died, her father was really supportive, teaching all of his kids how to still have a good life. Especially, since he was a physicist, he passed down the scientific skill and passion to Marie when she is still very young, hence enlighted her future of being one of the world’s renowned scientists. After the huge grief of her mother, Marie and her sister, Bronya was also in a huge financial problem. But with the support of her sister, she could make it through and manage to finish higher education. Later on, when she was on her scientific researches, she was discriminated, since she was a woman, the Nobel prize department initially didn’t want to give her the prize, but then she got support from her husband, Pierre, and she finally made it and get the Nobel prize.

A resilient person usually is usually a person that can bounce back and deal with huge adversity and challenges in life. This could be the ability to adapt to new changes or manage many problems and stress that occur in their life. They are those who believe in themselves. They know their potential, ability and limits. This might be misinterpreted as being over-confident, but these qualities contribute a huge role in resiliency. If a person knows his/her own ability, they won’t over-expect themselves and then upset at what they get. They also need acceptance. They have to know that once something happened, it can’t undo itself. They also have to be a really good problem solver, because problems only disappear when it is solved.

About 3 months ago, I left my country to go here. I have to leave all of my friends, relatives, my old school and everything that is familiar to me. It was really scary to find that everything is new here. They speak the new language here, new friend, new people, new everything. Especially, I have to go to a new school and having no friends. But still, I have to overcome the fact and start a new school life. I don’t really think I’m exceptionally resilient, but I’m feeling like I’ve already done a good job. If I was there 3 months ago, I should have become more confident and believe in myself to not get shy in front of basically everyone.