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We are all both strong and weak, in varying situations. We're none of us made of stone.
I was just thinking about this today, specifically how being told I was strong from a young age (not even that I needed to be or that I should try to be, but simply that I was) became like a cage for me, a part of my identity that I came to own and be invariably stuck with, but that I did not create and therefore really did not own.
I'm sure that telling you you're strong or strongest was meant as a positive thing, but you are entitled to enjoy the benefit of feeling like it's your own choice, and not a demand or a constraint. Just my opinion.
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“We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day.”
— Antonio R. Damasio, “The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness” (p.28)
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