if u can relate your life with this quote "True strength is keeping everything together when everyone expects you to fall apart".
...what has been your experience...?
2006-11-30 11:27:56 · 5 answers · asked by SeXxY&SmArT 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
I relate very much to that quote. I had never heard it before.
Two stories ... my husband and I were alone on our 35 foot sailboat in the Gulf Stream in high winds and 25 foot seas for about 36 hours. Coast guard helicopters flew over us twice and asked if we were ok. It was the worst sea-going experience we had during our cruising, but we held things together and now can laugh about it and remember it with some nostalgia. Many people would have panicked and fallen apart.
Why do we remember it with nostalgia? Because we can never go sailing again. My husband has stage 4 cancer, has been fighting it for over a year, and we should be falling apart, but we are holding things together and trying to lead life as normally as possible.
Yes, true strength is keeping everything together when everyone expects you to fall apart. My husband especially, is a wonderful example of keeping it together in the face of great adversity.
2006-11-30 11:41:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
About 4 years ago my mother became very ill and since my father had passed away a year earlier, my siblings and I had a meeting to discuss her needs and what to do. After a lengthy discussion they came to the conclusion that she should be put into a home for the aged. I was dead set against it. Since "nobody" had the time or the space to put her I left the meeting in silence and immediately went to work cleaning out my office at home and changing it to a bedroom comfortable for my mom. She lived with me and my wife and kids for 2 and a half years. There were doctor's appointments, sleepless night, cooking special food for her and helping her with a shower daily. I did most of this since I did not want to burden my wife with these extra duties because I brought her into the house and wouldn't have it any other way. Believe me it was difficult as hell and even as I write this my throat gets tight. At times I would have to go to the beach and cry alone because I was so overwhelm. My siblings would say Oh you are doing a good job and God will bless you but help from them was far and few between the times they would visit. The point is Somewhere in there everyone expected me to keep it all together and I guess during the worse of times I did my best. Mom's gone on over to the other side now, God rest her soul but it was an experience I can never forget forever.
2006-11-30 13:06:28 · answer #2 · answered by Agnon L 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's Right! Its easy to be strong, confident and in control- when everything is going your way. The difficult part is keeping it together when odds are overwhelmingly against us and the going gets tough- True strength is revealed in times of despair.
“Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.”
“Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.”
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
“Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.”
“Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope”
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
“If you see a friend without a smile; give him one of yours.”
2006-11-30 11:54:35 · answer #3 · answered by ••Mott•• 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
genuine. to be able to stay with the help of each and every 2d of feeling discomfort and stricken by the downfalls of existence is to be solid. there is even a quote: "That which does no longer kill me, makes me enhanced."
2016-10-08 00:53:22 · answer #4 · answered by jeudy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋