subject: It Takes Courage [print this page] It Takes Courage It Takes Courage
It takes courage to accept 100% responsibility for your life when you had no choice in being born or as Sartre famously said, 'We arecondemned to freedom'.
It takes courage to stick your neck out and defendvulnerable and helpless peopleand other creatures when your livelihood is at stake.
It takes courage to be aware of your own mortality every day of your short life.
It takes courage to beauthentic when your society has done everything in its power to make you conform to so-called 'role models'.
It takes courage to throw your job in when you have no other means of income but you hate what you are doing and you are going to go for what you love to do.
It takes courage to put yourself under observationand discover for yourself who you really are beyond your superficial social conditioning.
It takes courage to trust people when you know howinnately selfish people are, including yourself.
It takes courage to seek the truth no matter what the consequences.
It takes courage to stand outside your country and your flagand be nobody.
It takes courage to laugh at yourself and see the ridiculous things you think and say and react to.
It takes courage to be ridiculous and be embarrassed often.
It takes courage to love unconditionally.
It takes courage to go against the majority and criticise your social and political institutions andtake actions to makea better world for its own sake and not for your ego's sake.
Hence courage come first and everything else worth having in life follows.
