What Is Strength?
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What Is Strength?

Failure is good for your soul

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What Is Strength?
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Strength. There are so many hidden meanings behind this one word. One of the most common definitions of strength is how physically strong one person is. I believe strength is created by past experiences in which one learns from their mistakes. It is sensitive to every person in a meaningful way.

There will be times where you will feel weak but that weakness turns into strength even if it feels like it never will. It makes you grow into a better person and you should be thankful for those moments when you felt weak because you are stronger now from that experience.

A feeling of power comes from strength as well. The stronger you become, the more in control you are with your thoughts and feelings. We might feel like we’ve failed if we don’t feel a sense of strength but strength can be created from those failures. Strength is built from the courage of you admitting your failures and weaknesses. Even though you might feel like you can’t get through a big obstacle life might give you, strength gives you the endurance to keep going no matter how hard it might be.

Strength is accepting who you are and loving life no matter what other people say about it. Strength is facing your fears. Be brave and take risks, it will make you feel alive and strengthen your soul. Although it may not seem it, failure and feeling weak is good for you. When you feel like nothing is working in your favor, remember that it is a speed bump in the process of gaining strength. Strength is accepting your flaws and making them your perfections. Taking your past to motivate your future makes you stronger. There are so many things you do in your daily life that you might not be aware of that make you so much stronger. As philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche said, “At which does not kill us, makes us stronger”. You heard him, conquer your biggest fear.

You will only gain positives from those experiences in the end. Strength is being truthful to yourself and others. Being confident is a sense a power and strength comes from feeling powerful. Life can be cruel but when you fall, pick yourself up and learn from those mistakes. You will be thankful for those mistakes, and you will be stronger then you were before.

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