Recognition: Opening The Doors

Day 5 — The Room Of Strength

Behind this door are the many versions of you that survived everything you thought would break you.

One by one.

The child who felt alone.

The person who was disappointed.

The heart that was broken.

The dream that was lost.

The days you cried.

The days you doubted yourself.

The days you had nothing left to give and somehow kept going anyway.

Most of us spend so much time looking at our scars that we forget to look at our survival.

We remember the pain.

We remember the fear.

We remember the moments we thought we would never recover.

But rarely do we stop and acknowledge the person who made it through.

The truth is, strength is not found in never falling apart.

Strength is found in getting back up each time life asks you to.

And if you could gather every version of yourself into one room, you would see something remarkable.

You would see proof.

Proof that you survived.

Proof that you adapted.

Proof that you endured.

Proof that even when you felt broken, you continued forward.

One step.

One breath.

One day at a time.

Perhaps the strongest version of you is not waiting somewhere in the future.

Perhaps that version has been walking beside you all along.

And yet...

Here you are.

Come here... Sit with me...

You have survived one hundred percent of the days you thought you wouldn't make it through. Never underestimate the strength that carried you here.