“Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. – Erica Jong. “The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.” -John Lancaster Spalding.
In our day-to-day lives, the virtue of courage doesn’t receive much attention. People believe courage is a quality reserved for soldiers, firefighters or activists. Personal security, on the other hand, is what matters most today. In other words, it is the norm not to stick your neck out and aim for the best in any human endeavour. Perhaps these are the kind of statements you have been surrounded with: avoid being too brave, don’t take unnecessary risks, a first-class result in school is a bit too ambitious, it’s too dangerous to draw public attention to yourself, who are you to get an education when no one in your family is literate? Overemphasizing the importance of personal security in your life can cause you to live reactively. It prevents you from setting your own goals, making plans to achieve them and going after them with a passion. It makes you play it safe. In order to live a conventional life, you avoid doing something positively outstanding. Therefore, you resolve to accept whatever life brings your way, and make the best of it. Complacency then becomes the watchword. What happens to you as a person? Are you not living below your potentials by doing what you think people expect of you? Harness your courage and see where it will lead you. Your courage will permit you to live a more fulfilling and meaningful life. You will truly begin to live as a daring person instead of a timid one. You will discover and develop your greatest talents that you never thought existed within you. Be proactive to events rather than being reactive and live a more courageous life.
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