Thread by @Schnumn

You're stronger than you think and weaker than you'd like to be

I still think of myself as being strong even though I think almost literally everyone is strong. I thought that maybe I could understand strength better if I could come at it from the other side and figure out what it means to be weak. That was the original idea for this comic...

But the more I sat with it the more I realised that traits we typically consider 'weak' are more likely symptoms of something else. Being 'weak willed' is a symptom of depression. Physical weakness could be the result of a disability. There's a lot of ableism in that idea.

So I think people are not inherently strong or weak maybe, but that you can choose to be strong or weak in a given moment. I think it's strong to fight for others and weak to abuse them. It's strong to admit you were wrong and change, and weak to double down on being shitty.

Sometimes it's just nice to be able to believe something about yourself even if it doesn't make perfect sense. Being able to tell myself that I'm a strong and determined person for all the things I've overcome helps to motivate me when I feel deflated.

Anyway I don't know lmao I'm not a philosopher, I just make melancholy internet comics :3 But 'you're so strong' is a sentiment I see a lot, and it's been said to me by others and I guess I was just trying to figure out what that really means haha ;;;;

Wait I've changed my mind. Actually, I am a philosopher

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