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Courage is a funny thing.
Something seen in people who don't deserve it, something obscured in people who do.
Abused.
Courage is that fireman that battles the smoke and falling debris to carry the crying infant from the burning building.
Courage is that lifeguard that dives into the black waves to bring the half-drowned man to shore during a deadly storm.
Courage are those grand acts of self-sacrifice to save another or others.
But courage is also that chooses life over death and pouts the knife back into the kitchen drawer.
Courage is that mother who takes in that starving baby girl.
Courage is that young man that brings the quilted blanket to that old man on the street.
Courage is found in little towns and noisy metropolitan. It is found in quiet suburbs and war-wrecked villages. It is the volunteers that work with the victims of natural disasters.
In the volunteers that work with the victims of human disasters.
Courage is in that child with no hair, fighting for her life to a disease which won't go away. The single mother taking care of her children alone and that man with but months to live.
Courage is everywhere, whether we ignore it or not. Whether it is seen on TV, or heard on the radio. Whether it is read in the paper or it is witnessed first hand.
Courage is in many things; from big heroics to small.
Someone once told me that I was courageous, me, Leah Clearwater. I remember what a bout of laughter that had brought, it had taken a while to calm me down again.
How could I be courageous? I would say that I am everything far from courageous.
He said to me: "Leah, you are so strong, so brave, because you keep living."
But the truth is it's easier to chose death over life, but you need to have the guts to do it, to pull the trigger, to move the knife. Not so easy when you're there.
'Many people are mistaken as heroes because they were too scared t run away' I forget who the hell says it, but they're right.
I'm no hero, I'm not courageous, I'm a beast bound by duty, broken-hearted, lost, confused.
I find brave those who are wounded deeply by those who love but who keep going, heal, move on. I'm too scared to do that, I could never.
I've hidden myself in my room, in my mind. Too afraid to face him.
Courage is being able to love.
Courage is in being able to live life to the fullest.
Courage is in laughing.
Being able to let others help you, admitting that you can't do everything yourself.
Courage is in bravery.
Courage is in crying.
I'm not courageous, I don't cry, because I know that if I cry, I shall cry a river of tears and drown in my own sorrow.
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So, it had started out as a one-shot, but we'll see. This popped into my head while I watched Bill-Nye in Science...
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xxTunstall Chickxx
17/12/08
P.S. ALMOST on VACATION!