STRONGER

At times I wish I could roll back the hands of time, and exchange the path I took for the one less traveled by...But then I look at all I've learned, the beautiful woman I've become, and I realize that speed bumps and road blocks like you, like this, make me "harder, better, faster, STRONGER!" Somehow, no matter how far I go, I end up right back here; It's as if life is merely a compilation of multiple circular dances. But each time I do this dance I seem to come out STRONGER!
I reflect on my life, my decisions, my current circumstances, my current attitude, and I ask myself why? Why did I choose to be here, why do I choose to stay here, why do I think like this, why do I seem to have lost control over myself? There are an infinite number of "why's" that I ask but I always seem to come to the same conclusion: It's making me STRONGER! Cahil Gibran said, "the pain you feel is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding," and I don't think I could have said it better myself. We all want to grow, we want to develope, to be adults, but we forget that along with growth comes a certain amount of pain, and that pain is the shell breaking. Every time that shell breaks, it's devestating, but despite the initial pain and confusion, the shell falls off to reveal a polished, perfected, "purified" substance: a new you/me. Don't approach every day or every situation with a sad and defeated dispostion because if you do, well then you very well will be a sad and defeated person, but if you fight, smile through the pain, and break that shell, you will undoubtably see that "that that don't kill me, will only make me STRONGER."