For nearly a month now I have become a strong individual. I have been forced to wake up everyday and smile through everything I have been through. I have made a geniune effort to make my life and those around me better. I have surprised myself on a daily basis with what I can do when I just stop thinking and I have become proud of myself for how far I have come.
I know that what has happened to me is nothing compared to the things that happen to others, but I think the point is that strength is a practiced feeling. We are strong because we choose to be. We are strong because we have to be and for no other reason.
A couple of weeks ago I started a blog about strength and what it means to be strong, but I found myself going back on everything I wrote today. Yes, we choose to be strong and we fight to stay that way, but that doesn't mean we don't fall into weakness at the drop of a hat. This was proven today when I was snapped down from my month of bliss in a mere two seconds.I found myself crumbling because of something that I thought I was over. I found myself struggling to come to terms with what I was reading.
To be strong is to have, "strength or power greater than the average."
I believe we are all strong, it is just that our strength and level of strength is dictated by our willingness to stand for it. It is our willingness to make an effort, but also to always remember we can only control our strentgh so much because we can fall at anytime.
To keep our strength growing we must continue to work on it, fail, try harder and become stronger on the other side. This is what I intend to do.
“Strength does not come from physical capacity.
It comes from an indomitable will.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
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