There's a line from a Rise Against song that goes "It's how we survive that makes us who we are." Philosophical fallacies concerning the substance of the human person aside, it makes a good point: you are not your pains and circumstances, you are not what the people who have hurt you have deemed, you are yourself and you have the ability to fight and redirect your future.
Human nature is beautifully resilient. Pain can shape us instead of destroy us, loss can motivate rather than crush, and anger can do more than burn internally, it can propel forward motion. From hurt we can create things of merit and shape our future. We can push past the classical conditioning of running from pain and battle it till we conquer.
This strength doesn't always manifest itself in a dramatic scene of power. It can be in forcing a smile and a kind word while being smothered by depression; opening a guarded heart, sharing a piercing thought, putting effort into your image and your work despite the pounding voice in your head that "You are not worth it. You'll never amount to anything." The silent battle is often the hardest because it is fought alone. Never give up, keep fighting forward. You are resilient.
with love,
Liz
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