what doesn't kill you wont make you stronger

They say what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. I disagree. It shows you how close you were. It leaves you with scars, breaks you down, and forces you to build yourself back up by hand. They say people will protect you. Not everyone does. The only person you can truly trust is you. So no — it doesn’t make you stronger, and they won’t always save you. You have to protect yourself. You don’t have to be the strongest in the room; you just have to survive the longest. Because it’s not the survival of the fittest — none of us tried to survive, we just chose not to give up. We didn’t train; we just stopped caving.