Personal Gravity

In physics, we learn that when an object has forces acting on it, and when the forces all cancel themselves out, this results in the object remaining in one place without moving, it results in equilibrium.

Your personal gravity, the one that is pulling you down, be it sadness, difficulty, anxiety, loss, betrayal, pain, confusion, or any tribulation, is equivalent to how much strength is inside you.

This is not a reach, this is not an attempt to tie in your life with  science. This is connected to a verse that we often hear and recite, "God does not burden a soul except [with that within] its capacity." [Quran, Al-Baqara, 2:286] You will not be crushed down by calamity, by loss, by illness, because you have the strength to counter those forces.

The more hardship you have, the stronger you are. They key is in the fight. You have to have the fight. You can't wait for the power to kick in, you have to use those muscles to work against the tide that is trying to drown you. You must pick yourself up, limb by limb, thought by thought, prayer by prayer, and fight. No one else will fight this for you, and you have all the human capacity to do it.

When you feel that pressure, that hurricane, that gravity, push yourself, stand back up, cancel those forces with your own, even if it is against your will, even if you want to simply collapse and surrender, even if it seems impossible, and your efforts seems fruitless, or insincere. Even if you feel as if you are faking it, know that is it in these times that true strength emerges, when you don't have the will. Stand up. And say, "This is what strength is made of."