Resilience.....?

After any terror attack on any city the buzzword always is the resilience of the city and its people to spring back to normal life. I am really keen to understand the true meaning of this word which is used so very often to describe the resumption of normal routine activity by terror traumatised city and its people. As per the Oxford dictionary, resilience is the 'ability to readily recover from a setback'. Do we really think that the people of these terror struck cities readily recover from the setbacks in terms of loss of life, livelihood and sense of security, or do we lure ourselves in to believing that they have recovered because they resume life's mundate routine. Readily recovering from setbacks and a resumption of mundane activities of life should not be confused with each other. Resumtion of so called normal actities at the most can be attributed to lack of options. You need to feed the family, after all...

I live in a metropolitan city myself and we saw terror attacks in the recent past in the city. We saw the bloodshed, the gory details of how and where people were blown to bits, but still did not take even a day to resume our normal life again. This is not because we are insensitive, but because we are convinced that there is no solution to this malaise within the existing system. We as a people actually do not even expect something concrete or tangible from the system to ensure that the security apparatus is not punctured again and innocent lives are not lost again. We have completely forgotten being taken care of by the government, and have actually turned in to a very impassive society. We have to learn to expect from the government again. It is only then that we should be disappointed or feel let down and think of doing something to change the system, its response to such a man made calamity, and its failure to rise to the occasion and deal with crisis. We need to learn to feel and speak up our mind, and speak our mind in such a way that we are heard.