“Take a risk: You do not need to be brave to courageous!”

Thursday, 08 February 2007

When we hear the word ‘courage’… We may think of a fireman valiantly struggling to save lives in a burning building. We may have in mind a scientist resolutely engaged in a lonely and difficult struggle to combat a disease. We may think of the Second World War resistance heroes and heroines who went to their deaths under torture, never revealing information to their Gestapo interrogators; We may think of a soldier who fights on his own to safeguard civilians in his town. But many less conspicuous examples of courage occur in everyday life:the child who confronts a catastrophic illness with unusual dignity and determination is courageous; The pregnant woman who was told that she may endanger her heath if she goes ahead with pregnancy, yet she does it, she is courageous; The construction worker who does his job without complaint even though he knows his work is dangerous is courageous; The woman who goes against all the odds and becomes an executive in a business organization in spite of her disability is courageous; The child who helps his struggling-with-poverty family; Click here to read the full text of Dr. Anna Abram