Those who are destined to be hanged are not going to drown

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

Pain is weakness leaving the body.

For every challenge encountered there's an opportunity for growth.

I'm trying to start this year off with some fierce and strengthening quotes, since it became very clear by now it will take many more weeks and months (perhaps even years) for life to return to what we used to refer to normal. We're lucky we mostly don't have to endure any physical hardship, but our minds certainly can't afford to get weak during these times. And it's the strength of our minds and minds of those around us that will keep getting us forward while so much of the world is standing still.

Funnily enough, we didn't bother buying calendars this year, but ended up reusing some of the old ones. Days of the weeks don't particularly matter to us, but it's interesting to scan trough first few minds, the last time before what we know will forever be changed. 

I do not want to sound negative, but I sincerely hate it when people say things such as "Clutch your teeth, the life will sooner or later return to normal." But what "normal" will it be to so many of us? Those who lost loved ones, those who lot jobs, businesses and homes, and all of us who lost freedom. I can imagine that eventually life will return to its old trails and will look pretty much the same to anyone looking at it from the outside, but taking it story by story, person by person, it could never be the same. I know for myself that even if things go back to where they were for society, my life could only return back to normal from when I was still living at home, from when I was still forcing myself to study and find a mediocre job to please the society, it could never return to my days of freedom and liberty and true rootlessness, to the time when I myself actually felt normal.

But hey, those who are destined to be hanged are not going to drown. So surviving all the crap that was thrown at us in the past, we can overcome this as well.

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