The word endure is from the Latin, indurare, and the Spanish, duro, meaning ‘hard’ or to ‘harden.’
But to endure, to develop endurance doesnt mean to be inert nor immovable nor brittle. Quite the contrary.
To endure means to be hardened, as in being passed through the fire… as a steel blade is passed through fire to harden it… so that thus tempered, one remains limber: bendable, but not breakable.
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The photo is of a tiny one-man outpost in Antarctica.