Strength.

What defines strength, really? Is it the amount of weight you can bench press? Is it how long you can run a marathon before stopping to break? How much food you can eat, how much alcohol you can drink? Maybe it's how many days you can go without any sleep? 

There are people in this world that go through so much and come out worse for wear, but so much stronger. Like those people affected by Sandy. How much stronger do you think they'll be once  their lives gain back some sort of normalcy?

Or even the ones closer to home; loss of a friend or family member? My next door neighbor recently lost his sister at 98 years old. They lived together in the same house all of their lives. Both watched the world transform around them, lost their friends, lost their family, but they got through it together as a family. How do you even begin to measure that kind of strength?

What about love? Well, what about it? How many people do you meet in your life? How many of them have you dated? Or loved? Or married? Maybe you divorced a few? You can define strength in love by many things really. By how many gifts exchanged, how many texts sent or phone calls dialed. You can define strength in love by the connection you hold between a person. By how many late nights spent. By each passing day you spend with that person. You can define strength in love by the heartbreaks and hardships. 

Strength can be defined in so many ways, it nearly seems endless. But, I guess, no matter what happens in life, you will always be strong no matter how hard it can get. No matter how unfair things may feel at that time. Regardless if you can't even bench press ten pounds, how long you can run a marathon, how much food you can hold down, how many times life shakes you down to the core, or how many times you've given your heart out/given a heart to and lasted or either didn't. Strength is always down there somewhere. You will always be able to find it no matter how clouded your mind can get or how much your heart may hurt. 

Hold onto that strength and never let go. Never let go of what you're really sure of.

That's all for now, thanks for listening.