I am strong, weak, and everything in between

Strength. It can be mental or it can be physical, but what exactly allows a person to be classified as "strong"? Is it how smart they are?, how big their muscles are?, or is it something else?

As Joseph Conrad said, "your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others" (7). Strength is not something that can be acquired due to a set limit. Strength only comes from one's ability to be less weak than other people. Being able to handle stressful situations makes you mentally stronger than someone who can't, and even if there is someone out there who is even more mentally stronger than you, that doesn't make you weak. As long as you are able to become less weak than someone else, that makes you strong. Even physically this is true. Just because someone can bench 100 lbs. and you can only bench 50 lbs., doesn't make you a weak person. You are weaker than the person who benches 100 lbs, but you are still stronger than the person who can only bench 25 lbs.

Strength is only visible through the weakness of others. Being weak or strong just depends on the situation in which you are put in. One moment you can be strong, but the next you can be weak. For example, in some kind of sports tournament, you could be the best/strongest one in the first round, but in the next round because the competition is more fierce, you could be the worst/weakest. No one is ever a weak or strong person for life, it just depends on the situation in which they are being judged.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSbCnWe6e1o -- Youtube army video