Girl Power

Are you strong? Are you weak? Are you both?

What does it mean to be strong? What is strength?

Strength means different things to different people. There is extreme strength, like pulling a car off of a trapped child. There is physical strength, there is emotional strength, like going on after a loved one has died. There is psychological strength.

Strength can be the simplest of things. It can be getting up in the morning, for someone who is depressed and wants to stay in bed.

It can be saying no to cookies when you really want to eat them.

Strength is smiling at someone when you feel like screaming.

Strength is davening when that is the last thing you want to do.

Strength is saying one more kapital of tehillim when you are so tired.

Strength is never giving up.

Strength is trying again after you have given up.

Strength is getting back up when you have fallen down so many times.

What is strength to you? Think about it. Envision it. Savor it. FEEL it. And the next time you are feeling weak, don't let it get you down.

Remember, all of us have the power to be strong people. You just have to tap into it.

I say girl power because that's what it means to me. The strength to say, the only person I want to be is me, that I can do anything I try. That I am intelligent, creative, fun.

The strength to say, I am worth it, and don't let anyone tell me otherwise.

Dear world,

I am a strong person. And I am coming, so you had better watch out.

Sincerely, Altie