Our strengths arise from someone else’s weakness. Believing we are better than some and we can outdo the others is what keeps us going. Is it because we are weak as individuals that we work as a human network bound by emotions and relationships? We see the light in situations and miss out on the shadows. It’s in the shadows that our weakness lies, where the inner child of our being is rooted; the one that craves attention, requires pampering and the constant affirmation from the everyday people in our lives that keep us sane and strong and most importantly secure. We have this self to recover from that place…the path we refuse to tread scared like a child in the darkness of the night.
Strength is a fleeting phase, this illusion we sometimes encounter or sometimes make synchronous with god. We cannot handle the weight of situations on our own.
Under the pressure of trying to be strong.. Ayn Rand makes me feel comfortable,,
"If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - What would you tell him?"
"I…don't know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?"
"To shrug."
Shrug. When in doubt when the world gets too heavy and the human connection gets weak or lets you down. Don’t run. Shrug.
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I dont fully agree with you. We tell ourselves to be strong when we fear something. If you observe all our fears are unfounded and illusory. However fear must be confronted. Thus you may choose to be indifferent but the fear still exists and fear can only be confronted through strength and belief in yourself.
Are you a happy writer? I mean, do you feel like writing when you are
happy and all? I guess not. You have already shrugged the world
off, haven't you?. "No more notes."
We all know that someday we will end up writing something like,
"I don't even know what I was running for - I guess I just felt like it."
However, we still keep going the way we do. Shrugging off in
between, smacking down at times. Trust me, smacking down isn't that bad
an option either. You know that the world is not gonna go anywhere.
It's tied as well, just like the way Atlas is tied to it.
I'm not really sure if I agree that we derive our strength from someone
else's weakness. I would rather believe that my strength lies in the knowing
that I'm not bound to stay strong forever and that it's okay at times to
be weak, and to pass it on and take shelter somewhere. I mean, come on!
even Batman feels a little low at time. And what does he do then? He
goes back to being the reckless Bruce Wayne.
I guess all of it is not that bad if deep down inside you know that at
times you can shrug and that things won't change much for the worse
if you do. Hell! you can even smack it down and it'll all come back to
you.
PS: The picture is perfect :).
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