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When You Don't Think You Have The Strength To Do Something, Look Around

Sometimes, being strong is the only option you have.

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When You Don't Think You Have The Strength To Do Something, Look Around
Taylor Hamilton

Life lessons come in strange ways, and everyone says that things happen for a reason. A car accident resulting in bed-rest, becoming wheelchair bound, and eventually having to teach myself to walk again was one of those life events that, even a year later, continue to teach me things about myself and those around me. Sometimes, even when you feel weaker than ever, being strong may be the only option you have.

Sometimes, even when you feel weaker than ever, being strong may be the only option that you have.

Sure, everyone needs physical strength. But in this case, sometimes physical strength just is not enough. Being emotionally strong is something that does not come easy. Being emotionally strong meant that every day when I felt like giving up, I looked down at the scars and remembered that I wanted to walk again. Being emotionally strong is when you feel like everything is going wrong, finding the one thing that is right.

Although while being emotionally strong comes from strength within yourself, sometimes you just have to find strength within others and use that. There are days when I couldn't physically get out of bed, when I struggled to get in and out of a car, when I needed help going from my bed to the bathroom, when I could not shower without the help of a CNA or my mom.

These days, any strength that I had from within was gone, drained; and on these days, I leaned on people. I could not have gotten through what I did without the strength of others that stood by my side and helped me every step of the way, literally. One of the things that this terrible accident taught me was even when I had as much emotional strength as I could.

There are days when being strong is the only option you have, but within that strength is accepting the fact that you do need the strength from others.

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