If you have dealt with adversity, a stretch of bad luck, etc or know someone who as, do you feel it has made you (or them) stronger, or perhaps, a bit cynical and nothing more?
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People say that bad luck etc makes us stronger and in the long term i think it does do but i went through a really difficult time from 98 - 00 because lots of stuff happened and its only now i am starting to deal with all that and now well something else as happened so im just going to get on with it and see what happens. time is a great healer so they say. but yeah i think it makes us stronger.
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Yes, I think difficulties are an essential part of development. Just as a muscle will not develop without pushing against resistance, humans who don't encounter problems do not grow to their full potential. Of course, we don't want problems... that's what makes them problems. Once in a while we're smart enough to see that our problems are simply the current curriculum in the school of living. When we're wise, we embrace them, pay attention in class, and do our best to learn.
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Going through my own struggles has made me more accepting of others, more understanding of their struggles. It's given me more patience and made me realize that no one gets through life without grief, pain and mistakes that have to be paid for. I don't know if that qualifies as "making me stronger". I think it's made me more human and more willing to forgive, to wait and to listen.
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I don't know. Everyone keeps telling me I am stronger, but I don't feel it. My husband died the day before yesterday. My grandma died at the end of July. My dad died at the end of March. Last year I lost all three of my children and my mother-in-law in July. It helps only a bit to know that a monster rots in jail for what he did to my kids. I have always tried to pick up and keep moving when bad things knock me down, but for the first time in my life, I don't feel like getting up. I think I'll just lay here a while. My sister, whom I have always looked up to told me yesterday, for the first time ever, that she was proud to be my sister, because I have been so strong. I don't feel strong. Just empty.Angry. Devistated. Sad. Mostly just empty.
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If you can push through adversity, you will become stronger. If you can't push through it, you will become probably not only cynical but, also very bitter and angry (or, possibly just depressed and sad. Depends on what type of person you are).
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All of them made me stronger some of them made me a bit more cynical too.
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