Hello Simon
Necessity dictates so......
So one must find a way....
Many years ago I was shipwrecked alone in the Central Pacific and washed up on tiny atoll more dead than alive. faced with two scenarios either live or die. I chose to live and had to re-learn the most extreme basic skills in survival by trial and error. I had many failures but every day was new day and new hope. The experience stripped away all my notions to understanding and conquering adversity. Through every mistake I learned from it. There was times I wanted to die, rats on island was so ravenous they chewed my toenails at night. Black ants swarmed by day rats at night.
Yet each victory I learned how to make fire. open a coconut, how extract fresh water from bit of clear plastic bag washed ashore. How to make weapon a spear to catch fish. Re-purpose junk materials washed ashore. In my time there I lost 50% of my body weight. I tell you about insane hunger and thirst with my tongue was sticking to roof of mouth being so dry it blistered and lived constantly on the verge of fainting from the excessive 40 degree heat and burning sun.
The two main concerns was food and water. Just like a hunter and gatherer in our distant past. My how spoiled we had become having everything at our finger tips. Its those eternal instinct are locked in side of us, only awakened by sheer will power to survive.
Well from that day on after that experience through my long life that willpower push on against what adversity comes my way.
I might be much older now tired and sick with illness myself looking after an elderly parent with dementia I am still breathing. Like a boxer in the corner getting belted in head I am still hanging on to the next round.
Such is the willpower to push on my friend.
Kanacki