If you have heard it, do you believe that phrase to be true? And if so, why? Do you think it could be applied to anything in life? Why or why not? I have thought about the phrase a lot lately and I believe that it is true and can be applied to just about anything in life. I believe that the human mind has the ability to get past just about anything, of course, there may be struggles along the way, but ultimately the problem, the sadness, the issue...no matter what it is can be seen as an experience, or a moment of clarity. Besides I think if we did not have the ability to move past things that we in our own minds have struggled with, how would the human race still be surviving?
2006-11-29 05:08:08 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
I believe you are correct and have come to the same conclusion as I have.
What does not kill you does make you stronger...........
Only if you understand it, many people do not and they go through life saying why me, why me?
It does apply to almost anything in life
2006-11-29 05:18:32 · answer #1 · answered by darcy m 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I agree. How do we know the beauty of a mountain if we have never experIEnced a valley?I recognize that there are exceptions to this theory. ie: My valleys will always be safer and the mountains less steep than if I were born in a third world country.My safety and day to day survival have more to do with an accident of geographics- where I was born- than good planning on my part as far as war, famine statistics, and level of health care available to maintain life. Barring this..I survive--therefore I celebrate everyone Else's ability to do so..despite all odds.
2006-11-29 05:21:51 · answer #2 · answered by randeena 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe the subject of kill is a life, but an attribute of a person. Stronger compares a future situation similar to a previous one. If you've been through a breakup, you're capable of handling a second breakup, assuming that the setting, situation, and involvement of the relationship is similar.
I think it CAN make someone stronger, but usually, stupidity and ignorance overrides that. Ideally, I think it does make someone stronger, but in reality, it is not always so. It is a fancy line for the movies.
2006-11-29 05:21:12 · answer #3 · answered by Zeo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I believe the phrase is very true. My experience with being abused as a child and having to deal with it as an adult has made me a stronger person. All the traumatic events that I have been through could of killed me, but instead to have survived them made me a stronger person, stronger then someone who had no trauma.
2006-11-29 05:35:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes I do believe this phrase is so true.
Base from what I had from my dark, unhappy and abusive childhood past times, I know that it surely could break me and make me give up my own life, supposedly. Many times had happened where I came to the point to commit suicide cuz at those moments I wasn't able to bear and resist the pressures from the abusive environment where I grew up with.
But... strangely and unexpectedly, instead of letting myself become like it wanted me to be, I rebel against all that and I refuse to be like what it expected me to be.
Indeed those miserable past times for me are like a lash or whip to move forward. I never want to be in a realm where I caught in the mold that I can't get out. Never. Those 'rough' past times help me to become the better version of myself and teach me to not look back anymore cuz you can't change your past BUT you can change your future. Yes. And yes I know that those who didn't have this kind of things may seem to be weaker and fragile once they really have to face the painful fact of life, rather than those who have experienced it before.
2006-11-29 07:08:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's an iteration of Nietzsche's famous quote, "that which does not destroy me / serves to make me stronger." Nietzsche intended it to signify the hardening of the soul in the face of war and turbulence, and although it is critical to development of the "uber-mann" as described in Ecce Homo and The Antichrist, Nietzsche did not express this quote as a point of virtue, but rather as being integral to the development of moral agnosticism.
It's become trite, misinterpreted and overused in modern times, yet is still quite popular with those who feel disenfranchised or adversely challenged. Words of wisdom.
2006-11-29 05:23:04 · answer #6 · answered by Super G 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Anyone who saw "Steel Magnolias" has heard it. To some degree it's true but some experiences are so devastating that although we survive them they permanently leave a scar or hurt that weakens our hearts and leaves us emotionally weaker than we were before the event.
2006-11-29 05:14:01 · answer #7 · answered by Debra D 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes for me i believe that to be so true, speaking from experience. i've been verbally and physically abused on many occassions. they ranged from the odd rants to me beaten and smacked with a shoe to name but many. i've been through that crap- and yet i've survived. i've had people being abusive and rude to my face and taking out their anger on me when i didn't do anything wrong to them- and yet i've survived. having said that, there are people who die from abuse, every damn year in this god forsaken world. men, women, children, young and old, black, white, asian, the elderly and people of whom are physically and mentally disabled/imparied are abused by those supposed to care for them, some gay and lesbian people are literatelly stoned or beaten up because of their sexual orientation, the list is endless.
but those who have survived or do survive have got stronger mentally and emotionally. there are evil, bad and terrible people who do these things - yet, the truth is despite all that, they of whom never have the last laugh and will never have the last laugh. not when their victims survive- because its they- not the so-called bad apples that do. and rightly so i'd say.
2006-11-29 09:07:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not always. In the case of mental abuse, what does not kill you may make you weaker. It is all relative to the person who suffers the event.
2006-11-29 05:10:27 · answer #9 · answered by boomer sooner 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I totally believe it. A few years ago I went sky diving, I did not die and now I'm not afraid of heights anymore.
Facing a fear, and getting over it, makes you much stronger.
2006-11-29 05:54:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋