Strength

Struggle is strengthening.

~ Ossie Davis

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Pandemics suck. This is not news nor is the statement particularly insightful. I do think that this pandemic - despite the struggle - is making us stronger, however I think we are not all getting stronger is good areas of our lives. Some of us are stronger in our denial of reality. Some of us are stronger in our suspicion of others or of our own communities. Some of us are stronger in selfishness. 

But we are also stronger in positive ways. Some of us have stronger senses of care for others. Some of us have found stronger senses of care for ourselves. Some of us have found strength in literature or visual arts or music.

And some of us just drink much stronger coffee. Or something stronger than coffee. 

Anyway... we're all "strugthening."