A weak man

We grew old and tired between seeking beauty and discovering innocence. [Photo by Erika Fletcher on Unsplash]

The year is 2022 and we still don’t know how to measure the strength of character. At the end of the day, but at the beginning of every argument, the validity of one’s existence can’t be defined, let alone be quantified on a scientific scale. That’s not how humankind operates. If anything, we are bound to fail miserably when we set one person’s ability to be good against another person’s ability to be evil. Human beings behave as per the given situation and don’t always get to dictate their circumstances. There is no reverse engineering in nature as far as our species is concerned.

Yes, to embrace the greatest cliché of all time: life is indeed unfair. 

However, say what you may, do what you should, where does a man go from being aware of his strengths and weaknesses? Those we label as ‘weak, do they know that they are weak yet? If yes, do they aspire to be strong once they gain personal assessment? If not, what happens to them? Do they remain stuck in their so-called weakness for the rest of their lives? Or do they step out of their cocoons one day at a time until they turn into a strong butterfly? If so, is that how strength works? Who is going to define strength now since the strong men have already defined weakness for the rest of the crowd?