What doesn’t kill you…

I’ve considered other ways to end this saying as I’m not entirely sure I agree with the commonly used ending. So here are a few I’ve come up with:

What doesn’t kill you…

…makes you wish it did.

…brings you that much closer to death.

…leaves you for dead.

…might kill someone else.

… …

Ok, I think that’s all I can think of. Maybe a bit morbid, but when you’re down, what else can you do but laugh at it? At any rate, I don’t think you get stronger from things that bring you down. I think that the strength comes from your own drive and willpower to bring yourself back up after you’ve been pushed down. Otherwise you’ll stay down by what brought you there.


…Of course, I should mention that at times, you need help getting back up. I don’t mean to negate that. But I still maintain that you need the will to get back up in order to be able to even ask for help.