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Living long enough to call the worst day of your life a story.
means The act of staying alive or continuing to exist through danger, hardship, or difficulty.
from From the Latin supervivere, a marriage of super- ('over, beyond') and vivere ('to live') — literally to 'over-live,' to outlast. It came into English through French survivre, and for centuries 'survive' carried the quiet sense of outliving someone else; 'survival' as the noun for the bare fact of enduring is the later harvest of that long Latin root.
- rule of threes
- Three minutes without air, three days without water.
- brain hijack
- Fear floods you with chemicals before thought arrives.
- the freeze
- Playing dead is a hardwired instinct, not cowardice.
- calm wins
- Panic kills faster than cold, hunger, or wounds.
- will to live
- Survivors share stubbornness more than strength or skill.
aron ralston arm amputation — hiker cut off his own arm after being trapped by boulder for 127 hours in blue john canyon, utah, 2003
uruguay air disaster 1972 — plane crashed in andes, 45 people aboard, 16 survived 72 days by eating dead passengers
jessica watson solo sailor — australian teenager sailed around world alone at age 16, completed in 210 days, 2010
ernest shackleton endurance — ship trapped in antarctic ice for 10 months, all 28 crew members survived, 1914-1916