A Woman is like a Tea Bag …

A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

“I thought you are a strong woman”. That was what she said to me when I told her everything. The answer is, Yes,I am strong. I am vulnerable but I am strong. Throw all of this to a less than strong person he/she would have break a long time ago. I am strong. If I am not strong I would have taken the easy way out the first time I saw it. If I am not strong I would not have chosen this. I would definitely not have chosen this.

There is misconception about being strong. It is not about being unbreakable. It is also not about not being scared. It is not about not bleeding when your heart breaks into a thousand pieces. No. Strong is when you are about about to break but you still go on fighting anyway. Strong is staring at the black abyss and still have the strength to hope and get up in the morning. Strong is when you are hurting but you held yourself together so tight so that you don’t inflict the same pain onto others. Strong is being broken. Strong is being vulnerable. Strong is being able to allow yourself to be broken and vulnerable and not let it change who you are deep inside.

If strong is a heart of steel. Then no one can be strong.