I thought of this Nietzsche quote the other night after something happened to me.
My wife and I sleep out on our second floor porch in the summer. We've done it for the last three years. I live in what some call a garage apartment and others call a carriage house. The porch was built almost four years ago by a guy my landlord hired. He picked the guy because he was willing to do it at a price he liked.
Well, the night before last I was in bed, I got up because I heard a crackling sound. At that moment the noise got louder and suddenly half the porch broke away and started downward. The fact that my truck was just below and stopped its descent to the ground and prevented the other half from breaking away from the house, and possibly flipping over on us, was for lack of a better word, a miracle.
My wife had no injuries but my lower leg got pretty messed up. There was a fair amount of pain involved.
It was the next day when I thought about the title of this post above.
Most of us have probably had traumatic and often painful events in our lives.
My question is, have we allowed the event to make us mentally and physically stronger? Or have we just dwelled on what happened and not realized that we are a better for that experience and can deal with whatever comes along unexpectedly in the future?
I choose to be stronger.
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