"Only the strong shall survive." Only the strong? But what is strength? What does it mean to be strong? Is it physical? Perhaps strength comes from the gym or the football field... But maybe it doesn't. Maybe that is only a small part of what it means to be strong. Strength is courage, strength is brave. It is in all of us, but only some of us choose to harness it and use it. Strength is what gets you out of bed in the morning the day after your father has died. Strength is what allows the single mother to feed her children. Strength is honesty, even when you know that it might get you hurt. Strength is having the power to hurt someone and choosing not to. What is strength? Is it a compulsion...a game...a sport? Strength is the ability to survive, certainly. But strength is also the ability to heal and be healed. So perhaps it is not only the strong that will survive in this world. Because strength is kindness, and the kind will lift others up on their path to greatness. The kind and the strong have the ability to be a guiding light. They are our leaders; our hope. Their strength radiates: it reflects off of them and onto the rest of us. With the right kind of strength leading us and helping us along, maybe we can all survive.
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