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Oh how I miss blogging!

These past 7 days were filled with an array of emotions from crises to calm, and during my whole extravaganza one of Nietzsche’s most famous quotes – What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger – kept me motivated and moving forward. Basically, I was faced with this sticky situation where I had to either sit back and ignore the problem or confront the matter and stand up for myself. Of course I chose to stand up for myself and I’m so glad I did. Through this experience, I proved myself to myself by breaking down my own boundaries, my fears, and experiencing emotions and guts I never knew I had. It revealed within me a sort of enduring spirit, patience, and inner strength.

My escapades re-introduced to me the importance of standing up for my beliefs, so I felt the need to blabber a bit about self-virtue and motivate others to stand up for themselves. The more we compromise our values, the more negative impact it has on our mental well being. And, the more we compromise our values, the more we continue to do so. To break this insidious cycle we must take that risk, regardless its consequence, or especially because of its consequences in order to experience difficulty and reap the benefits of coming out a stronger individual – building self confidence, developing a strong sense of self, developing self-respect, and becoming independent.

The decision to survive and to better our lives is of course up to us, but only to a certain extent. We can never completely do it alone since life wasn’t designed to be a solitary pursuit. Life was meant to be lived, and to live means to participate…to participate in life, requires for connections between our inside world and the outside to take place, and this connects everyone. So, worldly weakness and strength aside, the whole point here is to ascertain the fact that developing an inner strength is exactly what’s responsible for producing an outer source of strength, and that same outer source of strength is what keeps us from getting killed. So “what doesn’t kill you does make you stronger.”