I'd have to agree with your logic there.
There's a couple more sayings that have bothered me over the years. Ones that after some reflection, don't make much sense.
The first: What doesn't kill us only makes us stronger. Oh really now? I find this a hard pill to swallow.
Let's put together a hypothetical scenario here to demonstrate just how much of a fallacy this saying really is.
Say you're out in the woods cutting down trees with a chain saw. Nearby is a camp fire you've made because it's fall and is a bit chilly out. Your attention is pulled away from your task by something you see out of the corner of your eye and you slip with the saw and nearly chop off one of your legs. It's bad. Very bad. The saw cut so deep and so fast into your thigh it hit bone. You have to stop the bleeding, and fast. You manage to tie off a part of your shirt as a tourniquet, but it's not quite doing the job.
Then you remember the campfire and the hot embers. You could cauterize the wound to stop the bleed. You drag yourself over to it and pull out a piece of log with a nice hot glowing end and press it into the wound, holding it there as you pass out from the unimaginable pain.
When you wake you manage to call for help. Rush to hospital, emergency amputation surgery, recovery, physical therapy....
Months later, you and your artificial leg are at a bar talking with friends when one pipes up and blurts out, "Well, what doesn't kill us only makes us stronger", as you sit there with a fake leg, still a bit anemic from all the initial blood loss, still unable to drive yourself anywhere because your car hasn't been retrofitted for a one legged person, as that sort of thing is very expensive. Your other leg is constantly in pain and cramping because of the extra load it now has to endure. Your back is taking a hit as well. You can't sleep because of the "phantom" leg that you can still feel.
Your bills are starting to pile up now because your medical insurance isn't quite covering all of the costs, so you have to make sacrifices elsewhere in your life. You've lost your internet at home, switched your phone to a cheapo one from Wal-Mart, and even had to cut back on some food just to make ends meet. Luckily your job was able to make accomidations for you to allow you to keep on working there, but a a loss of hours. So now you're bringing home less.
Your thinning out now too from not eating as the pain pills make your stomach ache so much you always feel like throwing up. On top of all that you've gotten an infection from somewhere. A really pesky one that doesn't seem to want to go away. You're always caughing and feel generally like crap. Maybe it was from the burning hot log you shoved into your bloody mess of a leg? Who knows.
Your spirit is breaking down too now because of everything that's happened. You've hit a wall of sorts that you can't see around in your life. You cry at times, even though you have your faith that everything will work out for the better.
So, I ask you, how in the hell are you supposed to be feeling stronger now? It didn't kill you though.
See, it's such a pointless saying, one that's designed to make a person feel better about having had a tragedy occur to them in their lives. It's meant to get one to think that their life is so much more precious and valuable as a whole than just one occurance in it. But the reality of it is that one does is not made stronger by such a life changing event. It truth, many have gone to the other extreme and ended their lives because of the seemingly insurmountable mountain of difficulties that lay ahead of them when one of these tragic events occur to them. Also, it's usually said by someone who's never had something so life altering happen to them. A bit ignorant I must say.
Perhaps someone who's had one of these life changing events happen to them will have a different take on the saying than I do. To me, it just seems like the complete wrong thing to say to someone who's gone through hell and come back to live to tell about it. I doubt they feel much stronger than they did prior to the incident. For my own part, I suffered a heart attack nearly 2 years ago. Since then I don't feel any stronger. Quite the opposite. I'm very often very weak and get overly tired very easily now. Spiritually and emotionally I am very thankful for the gift of life and being able to still enjoy most of what I did before. I have "episodes" though where I will go through emotional breakdowns, where I feel lost and isolated, even though I know I'm ok at the moment. But I certainly do not "feel stronger" for having endured it. I was in better shape, more stable, all around, before it happened. Physically, emotionally and spiritually. All except for that tiny little clogged artery inside my heart...
Ok, the second saying that really get's my goat: "Sleep? You don't need any sleep. You'll have plenty of time to sleep when you're in the grave".
What? The? Hell?
Seriously, who came up with this one? They need a mega wake up call because they couldn't be more deluded if they tried.
Here's how this one goes. You won't need the sleep once your dead because all cellular activity has ceased. Your dead. Nothing needs the rest anymore.
It's while you're alive that your body needs the sleep fool!
These are confessions of things that I have thought about off and on over the years and finally put down in print.
I have been told each saying a couple times in the past. Each time I think "what a load of 🤬". How can that person say that to me in all honesty. Are they that ignorant to the reality of life?
Btw, I still have both my legs and I get plenty of sleep. Just saying.