I'm not the strongest person out there. I can't lift weights in the gym or move an organ across the church. In fact I get tired just carrying the groceries up the stairs. I won't brag of my strength...
But there is more to strength than just the physical stuff. There is mental strength as well. The strength that carries you through a horrible task. The meaningless ones that seem to carry on forever. The strength that can keep you holding on even when the world is turning dark. But like physical strength, we all get tired. Too tired to carry on, too tired to move forward. it is not just through looking after ourselves that we can get tired. Helping others also makes us tired, although we never think about it at the time. Our focus at that point is helping the other person no matter what the cost. Or that is how I like to see it, (Maybe I am just young and naive)
Physical strength is easy to replenish, you can have a sleep or eat something, even just taking a break helps. But you can't do that easily to regain your mental strength. You can't just stop the world from turning, even for just a minute. The world doesn't work like that. It just keeps on turning and turning. I guess it is up to us to replenish our mental strength. The world isn't the most helpful.
Its hard to be strong for the world. It feels like that the world is keen to throw anything it can at you to bring you down. Cold weather, assignments, lecturers, "friends" who really aren't friends at all. It feels like as fast as you are building up yourself for the next day the world is getting ready to bring you back down. Its a vicious cycle.
If physical strength is something you can see then mental strength that stays hidden away in the dark and dusty corners of people's lives. Its the kind of place where you have some idea of what is in there but you are too scared too take a closer look. Perhaps you don't like the idea of spiders. If you cant see it then chances are you can't see other people's either. You can't see what toll it has on the person who spent all night talking their best friend out of taking their own life. You can't see how weak they feel the next morning. They may look tired from the lack of sleep but inside they are feeling much worse. But the thing is because we can't see it we don't take any notice. How often have we sat in a crowd of people and over looked the person beside us. Chances are we have no idea what is going on in their life. Just like they don't know about what is happening in ours.
Maybe this is why the world feels like it slows down for no one. The world seems like it its a cruel and heartless place because we are cruel and heartless. we don't seem interested in what is happening in other people's lives and refuse to let others in to help. I remember reading "A problem shared is a problem halved" when I was a little kid. I didn't understand it when I was little but I'm starting to realise now that maybe in order for us to survive we need to let other people into our lives. We need to share things. Humans are social creatures. We weren't designed to hide away in our own little technology bubble. We can talk and hold conversations with people.
I know it is easy for me to stand here and preach. In fact in all honesty I probably don't know half the people reading this. I suppose if I change one person for even a day then maybe I've done my good deed for my life. We need to talk to people. Not only about the good, but the bad as well. Not just what didn't go right today, but what is worrying you. what is keeping you awake at night. Sometimes things seem less frightening when they come out in the open. If the sharing becomes two way then things become even. You might even find that you have alot more in common with the person beside you than you thought.
We might not be able to build up our mental strength by going to the gym and drinking protein shakes, but maybe that is not how we are meant to do it in the first place. Perhaps the best way to build up our mental strength is to talk to other.
I might not be the strongest person in the room, but that's no reason for me not to try
<3 S
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