Bollywood Superstar Hrithik Roshan who was last seen in the film Fighter has injured himself. The actor suffered from a muscle pull and shared a photo with crutches. Along with it, he also shared his thought on what real strength is, and how men have been conditioned to not express when they are feeling unwell. Hrithik penned a long note expressing his deep thoughts.
Taking to Instagram, Hrithik wrote, “Good afternoon. How many of you out there ever needed to be on crutches or a wheelchair and how did that make you feel? I remember my grandfather refusing to sit in a wheelchair at the airport because it wouldn’t align with his mental image of himself as “strong”.
"I remember saying “But Deda, it’s just an injury and has nothing to do with how old you are! It will help heal the injury and not damage it further!” he wrote, “It made me so sad to see how strong he needed to be just to hide the fear and embarrassment on the inside. I couldn’t make sense of it. Made me feel helpless. I argued that the age factor is not applicable cause he needs the wheelchair for an injury and not his old age. He refused and kept the strong image on display for strangers (who didn’t care). It worsened his pain and delayed the healing.”
The note further reads, “There definitely is merit in that kind of conditioning, it’s a virtue. It’s the mentality of a soldier. My dad comes from the same conditioning. MEN are strong. But if you say soldiers never need crutches And even when they medically do, they must refuse, just for the sake of keeping the illusion of strong intact, then I just think that the virtue has been stretched so far that it borders on plain stupidity. I believe true strength is being relaxed, composed, and fully aware that nothing, not crutches, not a wheelchair, not any inability or vulnerability – and certainly not any sitting position can lessen or alter the image of that GIANT that you are on the inside.”
Hrithik’s note further continued, “Strength is not always being Rambo against all odds with a machine gun saying “f**k ’em!” That’s applicable sure. Sometimes. And it’s the kind we all aspire for. Even me. But the more coveted one is strength when there is no one to fight on the outside. It’s that quiet fight on the inside between you and the “image” of you. If you come out of that one feeling like wanting to do a slow dance by yourself, then you’re my hero.”
While concluding, Hrithik announced, “Anyway, pulled a muscle yesterday and woke up wanting to reach out about this notion of strength. This is of course a bigger conversation, the crutches are just a metaphor. If you get it, you get it.”