I must learn to be my own happy pill. Learn how to get myself out of a rut. Learn to be happy alone. But when I learn all those, will I be strong or will I be impervious?
Strength
Is strength as having the courage to carry on when people around you seem to drag you down. Or to welcome any difficulty with a smile on the face - the tenaciousness to soldier on without aid? The ability to carry the people around you?
Can you feel hurt, dejection, and helplessness? Is accepting help from others a sign of weakness? Can you be affected by the people around you with what they say or do - especially the ones you care about? If they say something hurtful, is it strength to confront them, or should you let it slide?
Impervious
If being impervious is the state of not letting anything or anyone hurt you with words or action, do you at the same time not love, or even like them at all - are they just strangers you interact with? Strangers you keep in contact without investment of emotions, the very thing that keeps you from hurting.
If you cannot feel hurt, dejection, helplessness, and the whole array of emotions, are you impervious or just emotionless and living in your own carefully protected shell? Can being impervious be a result of neglect so much so that you no longer have hopes, expectations, no dreams of what should or could be?
What is the difference between strength and being impervious?
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