I love these exercises! In this opportunity, @zord189 incites us to penetrate our Being by investigating 2 strengths and 2 weaknesses of ours. A good exercise in introspection, but I believe that knowing and defining ourselves, fragmenting who we are, creates a random illusion similar to the old paradox about who comes first... the chicken or the egg? Do we have weaknesses that strengthen us and/or strengths that weaken us? It is possible and this is what this is all about:

2 + 2 = That's Me

Weak, I am strong.
Strong, I am weak.

Weak, slave to some pleasures.
Eating and sleeping, more than living.
I survive in the ruins of the saying:
I am not affected by what others say,
when it penetrates so deeply.
I don't see the arrow going right
to the center of the diamond
and breaks it without leaving obvious traces.
Weak, sensitive to the core.
I feel the sorrow of others as if it were my own,
emotion without rancor.
I suffer from empathy with the friction
of a shoe that squeezes
And it leaves annoying blisters:
Covert anxiety and depression.

I am strong, weak
And weakly strong.

Hypersensitive
Intuitive
Retracted
stubborn

I have thoughts of my own
consciously cultivated,
stripped of fear, anger,
resentment and appearance.
Externally,
a territorial beast,
Internally,
a tame beast.

Weak, I am strong.
Strong, I am weak.

Behind the cordial mask,
an attorney for my privacy,
for my interiority, beyond the normal.
Appearance is not my thing.
One more superhero,
exposed, without disguise.
I, strongly I,
radically me,
independent,
vulnerable and resilient
in rebellion until the end,
no matter what they say.
It is not my task to create in you
an impression about me.
My task is to believe in me.

Weak, I am strong.
Strong, I am weak.

I fall, I get up,
I tremble and go for more.
I add, not subtract.
I multiply, not divide.
Always, two plus two,
two by two = Me.
Never, two minus two,
or two between two.
Always, the glass half full.
Never, the glass half empty.
No more, no less than any other.
Simply, me being me.
Deeply aware,
I weave in me
a braid of light and shadow,
vulnerable and complex
Reckless and bold.
two + two= That's Me.

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@zeleiracordero
21/11/2020

In response to @zord189 Hive Creative Contest | Strengths & Weaknesses (Contest Details)

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2 + 2 = That's Me