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Personal Reflection:
I used to waste time asking for breaks, for things to finally smooth out. But life doesn’t deal in easy—it deals in weight. The only choice is whether you crumble under it or learn how to carry it. Strength isn’t a clean gym poster with flexed arms and victory poses. Strength is grit teeth in the dark. It’s dragging yourself through when your body wants to quit. It’s refusing to let the world break you the way it’s broken so many before. An easy life never made anyone worth remembering. The difficult one, endured—that’s where you find out what you’re made of.

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Reflective Prompt:
Where in your life do you need to stop wishing for easy and instead start building the strength to endure?