You’d have to get killed, NOT physically, of course, otherwise, how the HELL can you be reading this, right? Uh, D-U-H!
Before “What don’t kill you only make you stronger” can happen, you MUST get killed emotionally, because if you don’t, you will NEVER gain the strength you are meant to gain. Before “What don’t kill you only make you stronger” can happen, you MUST go through the trials of your life, on your own, with NOBODY’s help, because nobody CAN help you, it’s something, you have to weather through, ALL alone on your own, for it, to mean something.
Before “What don’t kill you only make you stronger” can happen, you will be sent through those GATES of hell, and feel that HISSING fire, and you will, definitely, GET burned, and you’ll feel, a TON of physical AND/OR emotional pains, during which time, you may feel too beaten to call it quits, but you can’t, because you quit, you DIE, and you will NOT allow that to happen, not yet at least!
Before “What don’t kill you only makes you stronger” can happen, and yeah, I’d already been MURDERED (in the psychological, and emotional senses!) by those who should’ve loved me, but never had, and yet, I’m still here (don’t ask where “here” is still!), KICKING AND SCREAMING, just as I got YANKED out of HIS ex-wife’s body, back in ’82, and, I’m still NOWHERE NEAR done.
Before “What don’t kill you only makes you stronger” can happen, you WILL, be SENT, into those GATES of your hell, and, left there, all alone, on your own, to WEATHER through whatever trials of FIRE, or STORMS you are meant to weather through, and, it will, be very hard, as you’re the only one who’s experiencing your pains so intensely, with NOBODY else who can understand what you’re going through, but, you WILL make it through, because failure is NOT an option, because if you failed, you DIE, and I would imagine that in your struggles between the Eros and Thanatos, you’d want to, TRY to stay with EROS, long as you can………