true strength

True strength cometh from within.

It isn't something you obtain overnight,

just like physical strength.

True strength is your ability and capacity to adapt to and with change, physical or mental.

When tough times come,

can you last,

or do you give up halfway,

saying,

"I can't do it."?

True strength is to be able to stand firm and grounded in your convictions,

no matter what other people say,

you have to stay strong and firm,

to be non-conformist.

Do you give in to peer pressure?

Will you jump of a bridge just because everyone else does it?

Or is it because you just want to?

True strength is bound together with compassion and love,

in your soul,

held in your conscience,

Compassion will give your heart the burning ardour and passion

to stay strong,

to keep your head high because you are doing the right thing,

with nothing to be ashamed of,

to help people,

to lend them your strength.

Do you step out of a queue

to help a little girl who just fell down on the street,

do you hold out your hand to her,

wipe away her tears,

and say it's alright?

True strength is humility,

to step down, steep down lower,

to someone of a lower rank,

to accept and own up to your mistakes.

True strength is admitting that you aren't perfect,

that you can be improved,

that your way isn't always the best.

Do you think you are better than everyone on the damn planet,

or do you know that you can't always be the best and grow up?

True strength is to acknowledge the strength of your opponents,

to congratulate them to their success,

to accept loss and failure with grace.

Do you cry when you lose to someone else?

Or do you know that you are fighting against yourself,

and yourself alone?

True strength is keeping with your promises,

do what you say,

say what you'll do,

follow out with a promise no matter how hard.

You had the guts to make a promise,

keep it,

if not,

plain and simple,

you are a coward.

True strength is many things.