suerza = a feeling of quiet amazement that you exist at all — gratitude that you somehow made it into being, despite the almost unimaginable chain of events required for you to be here.
The idea is actually pretty profound: every person alive is the result of an unbroken chain of survival and reproduction stretching back billions of years. The odds of you specifically existing are so absurdly small that simply being conscious can inspire a kind of wonder.
A related feeling is close to what philosophers call the sublime — standing before something so vast (the universe, time, existence itself) that you feel both tiny and incredibly fortunate.
Suerza comes from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, a project by writer John Koenig that creates words for hard-to-name human feelings. It is not an old word from another language, but a modern invention built from Spanish roots:
suerte (Spanish) = luck
fuerza (Spanish) = force/strength
