Be Strong and Start a Revolution
/When I was walking at the park yesterday with a friend (actually, it was the same one that I wrote about here) and found this little piece of paper. It was near a fire pit at a campsite, presumably the remnant of kindling used to start a fire.
I picked it up and immediately one sentence stood out to me: "Please be strong."
I decided this was my message for the day. So I turned it into a blackout poem.
Memorial
Please be strong.
As long as I'm alive,
you are Bodhisattvas.
Strength is something that's been on my mind lately.
Not just because I've returned back to movement practices that work well for me, including strength training, but also because I've been working on strengthening my ability to focus on one thing at a time.
To be "strong" means so much more than the abilities of the body.
At the end of the day, I was scrolling through Instagram and came across this post from Brene Brown, who’s built a career from teaching about the strength of vulnerability.
But what spoke to me more was the caption.
It read:
" I can’t think of a better way to start 2022 than by looking ourselves, our emotions, our scars, our beauty, our mess, our strengths, and our fears in the eye.
Finding our way back to ourselves and each other is not the stuff of resolutions. It’s the raw material of a revolution.”
It was then I realized the depth of the message I received from this scrap of paper.
The emotional strength that is required for us to come back to ourselves and those around us is actually what we use to start the fire of an emotional revolution.
I'm ready for this revolution to begin.
I'd love to hear:
Have you ever found a message in something that you find? What did it tell you?
What does emotional strength mean to you?
