Inner Strength

AS apposed to the other topic about physical endurance I wondered what your thoughts were on inner strength, when you think about what people suffered through in wars, are still suffering in some cases, how do they continue to keep going in such terrible circumstsances.

People who have severely disabled family members to care for, firefighters who must see some horrifuc sights I could list hundreds of examples, how do they keep going day in day out and yet you have some people having a breakdown because they broke a nail or can't pay their gas bill or something trivial like that.

To the broken nail/gas bill people perhaps it is important to them and the end of the world, but it makes you wonder how some would cope with serious tragedy such as in wars when whole families could be wiped out in one go, do you think we are all soft these days?

I'm sure prozac and the like wasn't around back (WW2 for example)then and yet people found the strength and determination to keep going and even keep cheerful.

Interesting topic.

One my teacher once told me we have also inner muscles.
Outer muscles are within our body
and inner muscles are within our mind.

The more we use muscles, the stronger we are,
no matter if they are outer..or inner.

That's an interesting perspective, i'll be mulling that one over for a while.

I believe it's down to one's perspective as well as accepting the situation and knowing nothing they do can change things in the way they may like. They all provide a service out of love and this alone can create a feeling of upliftment, as well as being needed and knowing that what they are doing is actually making a difference to the people concerned, despite the conditions they face on a daily basis.