Resuelve

Resuelve translates to "resolve" but in latin-america, it's an attitude.

When the banks are only open for a few hours a day and people offer to stand in line overnight for a fee, it's the attitude you have to have in order to get anything done. When the corrupt government official "doesn't" have the materials to make you a driver's license, what can you do but renounce your dignity and ask him/her what s/he wants. When everything seems to be going against you, but you're required to accomplish the task, guess what?

You better figure something out and figure it out quick.

It's this environment of do-or-die that breeds a mentality in all subjected to it, of accomplishment at all costs. Like the knife that can be used to either spread butter or stab someone in the back, this way of thinking is something I see lacking in this culture of on-demand, easy-access, instant-feedback.

More and more I've become aware of the huge difference between those who have gone through difficulty and those who've had it easy: the latter's view of reality and what is possible, is much more limited.