The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. Mignon McLaughlin
You can be brave occasionally but to be alive and living you need to be courageous. Courage is all about being proactive to the need of the moment and particularly when the moment questions your ability to stand up and be counted. It could be simply the challenge of beating Monday morning blues and smiling away your concerns of the night before or the day ahead; it could be feeling under the weather and yet having to go to work to meet crucial deadlines; it could be simply balancing home/ work and personal commitments or something more complicated as looking after a sick child or aging parents and yet walking the tightrope of commercial necessities, the yearning for personal space and time and the pull of domestic family life.
The courage required to tackle each moment is far more challenging because you need to draw upon it continuously and daringly. We are sorely tempted to throw in the towel and run away from the irritants of daily living. For students it could be the pressure to study, perform well in exams, miss out on favorite TV serials or sports etc. For parents it is the demands of their children, their exams and future plans. For most adults it is the personal career growth, rising inflation, the depressing economy and the mounting expenses that require a strong heart and a cool temperament. When viewed dispassionately we see that each of our worries actually comprises of numerous smaller irritants and almost all our challenges are interrelated. Every decision we take has a ripple effect on the other aspects of our daily living.
If we scan the daily newspapers, one would be appalled to see the number of suicides that are taking place everyday. Obviously they point out to the growing trend of people unable to be courageous in the face of constant pressure put by the stress of just living, We can also see the rising trend of deaths from apparently unrelated incidents like drowning, murders, accidents etc. However if we stretch our imagination a bit and observer many of these closely we would notice that the risk taken by those who drowned could be the result of stress making people foolhardy and taking risks that they wouldn’t do in normal course, or people pulling the trigger for frivolous reasons and reckless drivers who want to prove their machoness on the roads. Many of them are people who lacked the courage to prove themselves in the daily grind and preferred to prove themselves in more daring, bold and brazen manners alas to a regretful tryst with their destiny.
Remember: Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow. Mary Anne Radmacher
Try these:
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The next time you go for an injection, be aware of your reaction to the whole process. Do you see it as small price to pay for wellness or a painful and if possible avoidable process that is recommended by the medical fraternity to bill you more? How do you react when the doctor or nurse is administering the injection?
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You have the casting vote in a competition. The two finalists are both exceptionally talented and have performed very well. One of the two finalists is the son of a very good friend and a boy known to you for many years. The other finalist comes from a financially weak background and your casting vote can make a difference to his career. Whom will you give your casting vote to and why?
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