Vitality
These essential moments and experiences are cornerstones of self-empowerment. They are some of the only sources of genuine confidence that most people have.
To experience physical prowess is to wield personal power. Often knowledge that such a sturdy blade is sheathed within oneself is enough to build confidence upon.
20% of American children aged 6-11 are obese, if half remain so through their lives entirety then 10% of a generation will have certainly missed any chance to learn of their capacity for physical prowess.
Their physical body is destined for ineptitude. And destinies of the body tend to trend those of the person.
To feel physical prowess and vitality is exactly the reason young boys climb trees. They wish to play in their capacities, learning of the heights they can climb.
How much of their will can they exert through their body's prowess?
The skier playing in the fresh snow on a steep cliff, the gymnast on the bars, the fighter in sparing, the alpinist in the mountains.
The dolphin bow riding, the horse wildly galloping, the swan playing with the power of their wings.
Here these housers of great capacities may finally get to vitally play their symphonies of strength and vigor.
Here they can learn the true bounds of the capacities which they house and learn to respect at least that within themselves.
This must transpire in some capacity, in some domain, at some point in one's life, so that one may have a source of genuine confidence.
They can then rely upon that one moment where they were able to purely exert their vitality and vigor, for their hands learned to wield a true and genuine power whose only source was within them.
Knowledge of such a source within oneself is the root of genuine self-confidence.
It is not necessary that prowess is physical, but physical ineptitude will undermine all other prowess's.
Develop your prowess and build your identity upon your genuine capacities.
All other identities are destined to be daunted.
~ Twilight, Mount Desert Island, Maine - Frederic Edwin Church - 1865