Stuart Diver has endured more heartache in the past 25 years than most will face in their lifetime.
He survived a natural disaster that claimed the life of his wife, Sally, and lost his second — Rosanna — to breast cancer almost two decades later.
Yet rather than wallow in the depths of it all, Diver has become somewhat of a national symbol for resilience, for finding a means of existing — even thriving — in the face of deep trauma.
Speaking to Mamamia's No Filter podcast last year, he explained that he does it by asking himself a key question: "What am I living for?"
The answer is simple.
Love.
"I love people. I love sharing life with people, I love caring for people. And that's what drives me forward," he said. "That's what gets me out of bed every day."
Luckily, his life has been - and continues to be - filled with an abundance of it.
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With the passage of time, Stuart Diver's memories of his wife, Sally, have faded a little. But he remembers the important things.
"She was well-liked by everyone, because she was always bright and bubbly, and she was happy. She had that carefree attitude, and she had this really deep determination — she knew where she was going, and she knew what she was doing," he said.