COURAGE

Fear and courage are two inseparable words. Yes I just said inseparable. You must overcome your fears for you to be considered courageous, and vice versa. Majority of people might consider themselves courageous but yet they have not been able to overcome their fears. You are either courageous or fearful.

Courage to me means standing up for what you believe in and who you believe you are no matter the circumstances surrounding it. The bing dictionary describes courage as the ability to face danger, difficulty, uncertainty, or pain without being overcome by fear or being deflected from a chosen course of action or the ability to do something that you know is right or good, even though it is dangerous, frightening, or very difficult. 

You do not become courageous by just doing everything there is to prove yourself worthy, but, you become courageous by having a chosen course (principles) , standing by it and being ready to go any distance to ensure that it is done. So before you stand up and talk of or act in courage you have to build a good value foundation. If you have values, you are ready to die for them; that’s courage.

When your values define you, courage becomes automatic. When you compromise your values ,cowardice becomes your definition. We live in cowardly society, people who are not willing to stand up for what they believe in, people who compromise their values for short term gains. We have lost true meaning to ourselves, that is why corruption and other acts of moral decadence are rampant. We have not been able to stand up even for the smallest values. We are ready to compromise anything for some filthy short term gains.

Cowards piss me off. I love courageous people, people who fight for their values to their last breath. That’s the kind of a man my father brought up to be. I want to live a courageous man. A man who has the audacity to stand up to; fake systems, a compromised society, a valueless generation and established cowards and stand up for CHANGE. Have you ever stood up for something?

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