Our weaknesses for the purpose of this note are the things that we like. Our bodies recognise lots of weaknesses and strengths, the things we do not like. To harness and enjoy our weaknesses, we can put are strengths temporarily aside. For example to enjoy a sweetie, we can put aside the pain of a tooth ache. That is an extreme example, but you should get the equation. A minus of weakness is bodily offset by a plus of strength. In the end we have a balance or imbalance. A big negative total in the short term will be offset by borrowing on or use of our stored up positive assets, our stored up strengths, the painful things that we have had to endure.
This note is not about making our stored up strengths work for us. For example, to enjoy a sweetie we could think of the death of a toad that we witnessed a week ago. That type of offsetting will happen, but it is not my main focus now. Rather, I want to consider how to make weaknesses work for one in real time. The background and main issue is that weakness has to be offset by strength if you are not to expire prematurely. I won't say die, but in a larger context that is what happens if we indulge our weaknesses without offsetting them. One might say that we sin and then we ask For forgiveness which comes about through indulging in our strengths. A corollary, of course is that those that will experience the greatest of weakness will also experience the greatest of strength. For example, those that steal will be caught and subjected to harsh punishment. The more punishment one can endure the more one can steal and still survive. The problem with stealing is that it is a very narrow weakness that one may try to do in secret, but one still has to offset this with a strength if one is not to expire prematurely. It's generally not a good idea to put all one's eggs into a single basket, if you get the drift of this particular argument. It's better to indulge in a broad range of weaknesses because an overindulgence in one weakness reduces what can be enjoyed in others.
You may think that my concept of weakness is already adrift. I can assure you that it is not. Take time to observe around you how people and all living creatures indulge their weaknesses and you will observe how their strengths come into play. Developing one's strengths is a necessary precondition to enjoying one's weaknesses. Thus, it is that we can make our weaknesses work for us. The trick is that they must be used to develop our strengths.
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