It has been proven time and time again that adolescents and young adults carry with them a believed sense of indestructibility, and this is only added to by the perceived success of living through the death of a parent. To a survivor entering the world, all that lay ahead would then become a challenge that needed to be met, and within their eyes there would be nothing that they could not attain. This shared view brings us into the realms of the physical and mental groupings that we have discussed. Following from this idea of travel is the fact that as travel increases, a person is forced to spend greater and greater amounts of time on their own. Far separate from, but none the less important then, the ability to travel without fear is the learned traits of actual physical touch.
Survivors often form a dichotomy between their reactions to physical contact.
Both situations can later lead to advances for the survivor. A grown child that chooses to not be physical may do so to protect themselves or to protect others, but with either reasoning it may allow them to be able to climb higher and farther by not having significant others to carry along with them. The inverse of this action also holds true in the fact that those that are physical and not afraid of contact can draw others in to them, in turn gaining the support they may need in their times of need. In both cases, the survivor finds a platform from which to re ach, and continues to do what they have done all along, survive. We have explored the range of physical and begun to dig into emotional, but in order to explore further we must delve into the mental range as well.