Strength is often not about how your survive or why you do so but just rather the fact that you did. That despite all the misery and pain that surrounds you, you’ve found a way to just get through the day. To not let it overwhelm you completely even though it’s wearing you down. Someone who thinks about not waking up the next day but does so anyway chooses to be strong. For themselves or others.
Who would you consider strong? The guy who can hit the hardest or the guy who can take that hit and stay standing?
Your choice is survive or die, and most people are almost hardwired to not even regard death as a choice, so there’s really no autonomy. I suppose you could say my mind is strong, but that’s about as meaningful as saying I have naturally strong muscles: cool, but that’s not something I did or earned, that’s birth luck.
I don’t want to be seen as strong for my struggles. I was only a bit of bad luck from death, would that person have been considered weaker than me now? She’s hardly different from me, so if she’s weak I’m weak. And if you’d say we’re both strong, what’s the point in calling a survivor strong anyway? I’ll take the title “survivor”, but " strong" implies more power than I really had.
Strength is often not about how your survive or why you do so but just rather the fact that you did. That despite all the misery and pain that surrounds you, you’ve found a way to just get through the day. To not let it overwhelm you completely even though it’s wearing you down. Someone who thinks about not waking up the next day but does so anyway chooses to be strong. For themselves or others.
Who would you consider strong? The guy who can hit the hardest or the guy who can take that hit and stay standing?
Your choice is survive or die, and most people are almost hardwired to not even regard death as a choice, so there’s really no autonomy. I suppose you could say my mind is strong, but that’s about as meaningful as saying I have naturally strong muscles: cool, but that’s not something I did or earned, that’s birth luck.
I don’t want to be seen as strong for my struggles. I was only a bit of bad luck from death, would that person have been considered weaker than me now? She’s hardly different from me, so if she’s weak I’m weak. And if you’d say we’re both strong, what’s the point in calling a survivor strong anyway? I’ll take the title “survivor”, but " strong" implies more power than I really had.