Stronger

'There are those who seek to destroy and discredit you. Let them try; they can only make you stronger.'

This saying goes hand in hand with; 'That which doesn't kill us, makes us stronger'.

Why does it take something 'painful' to happen, in order for us to become stronger? When we're young, we are infallible to pain. Our barrier is our innocence and at the same time, it's our hindrance. When we grow up, we look at things differently, see things we didn't see before and question things we didn't know needed questions.

When we are young, we accept an answer for what it is, not for what it isn't. We accumulate our knowledge from our elders, our family, and our peers, but why? They are damaged. They've grown up; they've seen what the world is like without the barrier of innocence. Are they stronger for this? Or simply broken? Do hardships really make us stronger, or just make us care less and less?

For every painful action there is a non-painful one. With good there is bad. With ying there is yang and there is also darkness and light. And then there are all the bits in between.

Do we keep going through all the 'bad' stuff, so eventually we get to the 'good'? Or are we simply stuck somewhere between the two? Whatever stage we are at, we are only human, only living.

To live is to feel pain and to feel real. To feel good and bad, and it's also just to feel; to show we are alive. That no matter what we go through, we know we can get through it, we will get through it; because that's what being alive means, to survive.

But writing all this, I can't help but feel at the end of it all, we will die. Cease to exist, no more, ever. Why do we go through so much shit just to die? It's inevitable. It's something that goes hand in hand with life. To live is to die, to breathe is to exhale and to make us feel stronger we must also feel weak.

Death is the promise of completeness. You made it to the end. And all before death you gave life one hell of a ride and you decided, 'That which doesn't kill us, makes us stronger'.

But sometimes we are just too weak.