ONE ‪COWARDLY PERSON‬ CAME TO A ‪MASTER‬ OF ‎MARTIAL ARTS‬ :

One cowardly person came to a master of martialarts and asked to teach him ‪‎bravery‬. The master looked at him and said:

- I will teach you only with one condition: one month you will have to live in a ‪‎bigcity‬ and tell every person that you meet on your way that you are a ‪coward‬. You will have to say it ‪‎loudly‬, ‪openly‬ and looking ‪straight‬ into the person's eyes.

The person got really ‪sad‬, because this task seemed very ‎scary‬ to him. For a couple of days he was very sad and thoughtful, but to live with his cowardice was so unbearable that he travelled to the city to accomplish his mission.

At first, when meeting the passers, he quailed, lost his speech and couldn't contact anyone. But he needed to finish the master's task, so he began to overcome himself. When he came up to his first passer to tell about his cowardice, it seemed to him that he would ‪‎die‬ from ‪fear‬. But his voice sounded louder and more confident with every passing day. Suddenly came a moment, when the man caught himself thinking that he's not scared anymore, and the further he continued doing the master's task, the more convinced he was that the fear was abandoning him. That way a month had passed. The person came back to the master, bowed to him and said:

- Thank you, ‪teacher‬. I finished your ‪task‬. Now I'm not ‪afraid‬ anymore. But how did you know that this ‪strange‬ task will help me?