Strength
Strength is more then just a physical word. It is a word of high stature. Strength can be used in three ways; physical, mental, and spiritual. Strength is the quality of being physically strong, capacity to sustain the application of force without yielding or breaking, effectiveness, and concentration. Strength is a word that is a greatly misinterpreted from time to time. To some, strength is only in physical form, but for others strength comes with emotions and spirituality.
Physical strength is a good thing to have for your personal benefit. To be physically fit is good for your health and for the protection of you and others. To have physical strength is a great asset, but for some a mere burden. For the bully who abuses his physical strength, it could lead to anguish and pain for him and others. Is a man strong when he hits his wife or is a man strong when he offers comfort? That's were mental strength comes into play.
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Runner's Mental Toolbox -- F.A.S.TMental strength can be one of the best things to have. To be able to control a situation is a great thing. When we get older we gain more mental strength, because our minds gain more knowledge. Karate teaches self defense, but their main focus is on mental strength. The instructors
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teach their students to only use karate as self defense. That it takes more strength to not use karate then it does to actually use it. In a relationship mental strength is the top quality. "It takes a lot of mental strength to focused and stay married for twenty-nine years."(John Hart) Teaching anything and everything involves a lot of mental strength (patience). For some having attractive features can lead to over confidence, niaveness, and broken relationships. For others having beauty...
There are more kinds of strength
I think that this essay excludes some types of strength that are very important. For example there is the type of strength that a person must have to stand by what s/he believes in, and to express h/er needs and desires, despite forces that try to keep h/er from doing so. Think about the strength it took for African Americans in the 50's and 60's to build such an effetive civil rights movement, the strength of AIDS activivists struggling all over the world to get life-saving drugs for everone who needs them, or the strength of Afgan women struggling to assert their power.
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