what it means to be strong

Strength is a quality I've desired for years. I saw my mommy hold strength like a champion. I've always wanted to have strength like my mommy. When anyone has asked me if i could have anything in this world, what would it be, that was always my answer. To be as strong as my mommy. But right now, I want to go over a list of the things that make a person strong.

1       Admitting your weakness. To be strong, you have to admit when your weak. You can't grow strength in any area of your life unless you admit that you are weak in it.

2       Fear. This is a tricky one for me. Is strength the absence of fear? Or the embrace of it? Is strength power in fear? We all have a fear. When you face that fear, is when your true strength begins to develop. Not when you conquer your fear. When you face it.

3       To have strength, I believe you must have the capacity to feel things deeply. Mainly to care deeply. The root of your strength stretches as deep as your heart reaches. The deeper it goes, the greater capacity of strength you can have.

4       Lastly, to have strength, is to know who you are. To know that you are strong. Not to yell it loudly like a cocky looser. But in the heart of who you are, to never question, never doubt or double check, but know with the knowledge granted you by God the father, and a confidence more powerful than any fire that's ever burned, that who you are is a warrior! That you are, the epitome, of strength!

In the end, all of this is my opinion. You may believe what you want. But this is what I believe, and this is what makes me strong. Like my mommy.