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It made my faith stronger. When I was desperate and had no way to turn, God was always there. Surrender is the answer if you want to get stronger. Surrender to God.
Agreed. If the adversity is ongoing or comes in wave after wave, it tends to weaken a person in my experience (my own). Very true that a person can only handle so much before they are compromised and have to work very hard to climb back up.
THIS^^^.
People can handle only so much. Each hit we take takes a toll on our resiliency and ability to marshal strength and to rebuild. After a while there are not strong enough to handle that constant bombardment of negative events, loss, tragedy or rejection that they have experienced.
A wise old psychiatrist once compared our minds to a rubber ball that eventually is not resilient enough to bounce back. At a certain point, the rubber ball just can't do it alone. It is not stronger than it was in the beginning.
It's broken and weakened.
I will disagree with one thing that pathrunner wrote - it may not have the ability to bounce back.
Yes, my experience is that with age and reduced resiliency, it's much more difficult and almost impossible to bounce back. Yesterday I kept thinking, I just want to be younger, stronger and healthier again. No such reality for humans.
Yes, my experience is that with age and reduced resiliency, it's much more difficult and almost impossible to bounce back. Yesterday I kept thinking, I just want to be younger, stronger and healthier again. No such reality for humans.
Yeah, especially since the really hard stuff comes at the end. In a sense that's why learning to surrender to immovable force is a strength.
Guess first you have to figure out what's immovable and what isn't.
There's little more painful than watching someone battle an unwinnable fight.
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