Of Courage

Goodness without strenght,honesty without intelligence,and courage without wisdom are wasted virtues,similar to coffee without the kick, ice cream without the chill and anything without salt.the unfortunate part of the story is that you have to be born with a good many of these virtues...some you can acquire...but can you really change who you are deep down inside?honesty can be learnt but goodness you have to have inside..wisdom comes with experience but intelligence is a gift....but perhaps the most beguiling,the most bewildering of the lot is courage..

I think everyone can be brave.that its a matter of choice.for is it not true,that Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to stand up for the fight inspite of it?...because the biggest enemy you have to deafeat is ,at the end of the day,yourself...

Courage has a different defination for everyone.it can mean physical courage,the ability to face a bullet without flinching,of being able to tolerate the hideous pain from broken bones with nonchalence and style...or it might mean emotional courage,to be true and loyal to your relationships..it can simply mean being able to live for one more day when you had rather give up and give in..courage is in the simple act of standing up for the national anthem in a movie hall,knowing people will smirk...... or to be able to laugh with the sheer joy of living,when everything you have is on stake and the dice is spinning in the air... ...but perhaps the most vital form of courage is the ability to accept truth.. about the people in your life.and most of all ,about yourself...

.to know who i am,what i am ,why i am.. to know that nobody is perfect,that perfectness is an insult,because we are humans,gloriously flawed,utterly beautiful because we are imperfect,unique,each one of us,with the potential for the good ,the ugly ,the insanity and innocence all seething inside us.... an angel to someone and a devil to another...and to know that to err ,to stumble,to be less than what you can be today is okay,because tommorow you can be right,be strong and be much more than you ever dreamt of being.....to know and understand and acknowledge ...requires courage.

so more than goodness,more than honesty and some days even more than integrity,i respect courage...in all its colours and with all its style,in all its glory,and all its might,with all its power and at times foolishness, i hope and pray that Courage continues to walk the earth for a very long time to come...