True strength

I once felt that it was the strong man who could live in relative solitude, in company with his own thoughts and emotions, impervious to the disdains or confirmations of others. I now know this to be error. The truly strong man doesn’t isolate his own heart but rather wears it in plain and unsheltered sight. To be at times torn, misunderstood, abused but to continue to live openly with the unabashed hope that one day it may be embraced.