Strength

Strength is only ever commonly portrayed as how much weight one can lift or how much force they can hold back or push, or even how long they can endure a certain feat. Strength should never be pictured as nothing more than a physical attribute to someone, it should also be a spiritual and mental thing. In fact, I consider myself the strongest person I know. I believe that to understand my life is to understand true strength.

It should not matter how big your muscles are, or how much of it you have, or whether you can juggle barbells for all I care. What should matter is how strong you are on the inside. My mother once told me that God chose me to be a very strong person, the strong man in my family, if I must. I would even very much like to believe that as well. I do consider myself to be chosen by God to be spiritually strong. I would like to believe that God chose me to go what I have gone through and suffer the hardships that I have suffered growing up with all of the problems I have been born with.

Strength really should be about the spirit and the mind, not about muscle power. Strength is about believing in yourself as an individual and surviving the struggles you have encountered and endured in your lifetime. If you were born completely healthy and perfect and just brought into a perfect world with perfect parents and a lot of money. You can not be strong, no matter how much weight you lift in the gym. If the only thing you have suffered through is being choked to near-death, or have been hit by a car that was not going that fast, you are not strong, you are just as weak and fragile as the rest of the normal human beings around you.

A man bounded with muscles and testosterone is only going to be as strong as he says he is. But get a man to gunpoint on this musclebound beef head and surely that man will break down and show his true colors of weakness. That man will never be wholly strong, he will only be physically strong. Hide behind your muscles and you are only showing that you are a weakling.

After thought:

I thought today's virtue could be about strength because it is a certain characteristic that is only ever taken all too lightly. I wanted to tell you readers about what true strength is and what strength really should be.