What do you think of or feel when you hear the word powerful? Is it a meaning for "stronger than everyone else" or does it have an even deeper meaning?

"Powerful," another song I heard in the hit show Empire, goes beyond love and goes beyond a life that people see every day, but a life that people don't see everyday.

"People been talking about it we won't just stand here in silence, can't stop the fire from rising."

Not too long ago a personal experience affected a lot more than what I thought it ever would and because of it, it's left me completely traumatized. Throughout the entire moment, I could not stop thinking how weak I truly was not just at that moment, but throughout my entire life. Thinking I've done good in this world or thinking I've overcome obstacles, but never really feeling it only feeling the self doubt and weakness that I realized on that day. To think that this was something I thought I was going to get over and move on from, but never really left me and on top of that has amplified everything else I've ever felt. I see the people who "look up" to me and think about all the time they've wasted in doing so. To think a life insignificant as it is people would just stand there and continue to support me.

"Powerful, there's so much strength in you and me, I matter, you matter, we matter all."

Two particular friends always reminded me of how much I mattered to them, always making sure I was okay and I was back, but even then I wasn't people like them and a special person in my life continue to draw back my strength and show me how powerful I really am on the inside.

Sometimes it's hard for any person to go through what one goes through just as Martin's Speech echoes in my head, so do the voices of those loved ones and everyone else watching me succeed.

"A breath away from victory."