ByValentia
Courage
How that word has exhausted me... I've always drifted away in thought, wondering: How can I be courageous?
It's just a question, yet I've given it a thousand answers.
Is courage hitting the arrow dead center on the target?
Is it being able to wield the spear and fight with full skill?
Or is it striking the sword into the enemy's heart?
Or... does courage mean something else entirely-something that has nothing to do with battle?
I always thought courage was about defeating my fears and throwing them away without a second thought.
But... is courage really about getting rid of fear?
Or will the fears I've always hated remain imprisoned-sentenced to life-in my heart and mind?
Is courage strength in the body and battle, or is it strength in the mind and speech?
Enough...
Maybe, just maybe, I've finally found the true meaning of courage.
And how long, exhausting, and difficult the journey to that meaning has been.
I found it after a path filled with painful life experiences.
But today, I will share with you that rough road and those hurtful trials in just a few lines-
in case you, too, are worn out from trying to figure out the meaning of that cursed word.