To experience anything that is important
in this life takes courage. What is important is often not easy and nor is it
popular.
To be kind and compassionate
and decent takes courage because the world is often none of those things.
It takes courage to live a life filled with passions because society encourages uniformity, advocates the safe route, applauds the cautious and often rewards the mundane.
It takes courage to live a life filled with passions because society encourages uniformity, advocates the safe route, applauds the cautious and often rewards the mundane.
Don’t look back on your life
and try to recall how many times you failed to live a brave life. It takes time
to develop courage. You aren’t born with it but you are born with the potential
to become courageous and every day the world challenges you to put that courage
to practice. You’ll have a lot of opportunity to prove yourself to yourself.
When those instances do come,
expect to get knocked on your kester a few times because it is not easy to live
a courageous life. You’ll fail occasionally. The day will come, I assure you, when
you will compromise your convictions. That doesn’t mean you are a moral
failure, a coward, or a quitter or a bad person. It means you’re human and you
goofed up, you dropped the ball. That’s
all it means. Nothing more and nothing less.