‎Being Strong means being Weak.

Title: ‎Being Strong means being Weak.

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# ‎Being Strong means being Weak. | by analee | Apr, 2026 | Medium

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‎Being Strong means being Weak.

‎**‎_The true meaning of strong lies in our capabilities to admit that we are hurting, we are tired, and sometimes we no longer see the point of living._**

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‎We have surpassed multiple challenges those that allowed us to learn, grow, and be better version of ourselves.

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‎One day you're sitting with your friends talking about life, sharing both pain and laughter, recalling your own personal struggles, opening up the wounds you have quietly endured, and kept to yourself.

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‎In those what seems like quiet moments of yours involves loud thoughts, screams for help that no one could ever hear because we never allowed anyone to, it stayed only in our minds because of the burden we think it would cause.

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**_‎"You're so strong"_** those words we utter after hearing their stories, _not just simply because they have survived those struggles but because they had the courage to share those that hurt themselves, to open the wounds that they