How Strong Are You?

[hopenowandtomorrow]

Given all the posts & the many things we have been through, are going through, or will go through, I found this picture helped me realize so much about myself. How about you?

[Zebra2018]

I love it! Thank you for sharing!

[Mindysooty]

very very true. None of us know what we have in us until we have the fight of our lives going on. I've always been a strong minded person but a bit of a wimp when it comes to pain etc. I'm dreading the day when my mets cause me more issues but I'll keep coming on here and drawing strength and support and hopefully, I'll find the fighter within me to get me through the darker days.

Thanks for sharing. xx

[Red71]

I have found that most things hit us one thing at a time..mostly...and we find the strength to deal with that problem, and then the next one, and so on. It’s when they all hit at once that we seem to falter, so we have to remind ourselves then we are the strong ones who can deal with more than one thing at a time. We can do it, and we have each other! Elaine

[nstonerocks]

I’m a mixed bag. I when I get not so good news, I go into a deep dive. After freaking out and running around in circles, I exhaust myself and slowly go forward. I can deal with drugs and tests and uncomfortable physical stuff. I am no hero and no role model. I wish I were one of those “brave” cancer heroines who stoically marches on to the end. I don’t want to die and don’t want to go in bits till there are no more bits, and I am trying to learn coping skills to deal with the realities of mbc. I don’t know how people who get more horrific news do it. I don’t know how I would do it. Little by little. Live each day, be grateful and happy with the basic things in life. Look at life as a gift, an impermanent gift. And accept and relax with this knowledge that this too shall pass

Groucho Marx said he wasn’t afraid of dying, he just didn’t want to be there when it happened. I’m still afraid to leave this life, and I agree with not being ready to embrace my mortality. Sorry, no answers. I keep looking 👀

[kearnan]

Or there was one I found online that said When people ask me how I am going through this all alone with no family at all and no friends that live in Brooklyn. My friend said I could never do that without support (she lives upstate) and her close family.

I sent her the photo post that said "When people ask how I am going through this? I reply "Because I have no choice." This really affects all of us the same. We have no choice so we do what we have to do.

[mariootsi]

Great! So true.

[RLN-overcomer]

What doesn't break us will only make us stronger. There is a verse in the bible that says when I am weak God will make me strong. The measure of a man or woman facing difficult challenges will enable that man or woman to build strength, and great moral character. I know some of us have gone through more challenges in this life than others. We are all stronger than we think. Keep fighting for yourselves, your daughters, your sisters/brother warriors, your mothers, your aunts, your cousins, grandmothers, and friends . XoXoXo

[myrtice in reply to RLN-overcomer]

Amen sister. God is always with us giving us love, grace and mercy.

[Stage4Gir]

AMEN!