Courage

What is actual courage? (Click on image to read text)

What is actual courage?

Courage is truth. Many, me and you find our courage in many different places. Sometimes we find our strength in fear. Sometimes we find it in ego. Sometimes we find it in alcohol, church, or peers. The problem with courage is that we look outside ourselves. When faced with personal difficulties, we retreat or we sugar coat our words in compassion, when instead, we should just speak the truth. We tame our words, our message in the hope that others will heed our communication. This is not a bad thing, but yet it is. It is bad because those we speak to are more knowing and are stronger than both we or they know. From my own experience, those we speak to hear what they want to hear. Those who we are familially connected with, expect us to say what they have come to expect from us. That is not their fault, but ours, our responsibility, our cowardness, or from our strength. It is not bad to be compassionate, cowardly in the eyes of some. What is destructive, is not speaking the truth. When we speak the truth, we are seen as bad, uncaring, or simply put, assholes. When we speak that truth in alcohol or anything else, such as ego, we are blamed for being inebriated in whatever gives solace and protection from that which we have hidden behind. In that, they are right, but, truth is truth. Sometimes we rely on something outside ourselves to speak the truth. In this moment, we are damned if we do and damned if we don't in the eyes of those to whom we have given that power. And, we do give power to our children, our husbands and wives. We give that power to everyone to whom we are afraid to speak our truth. In essence, we relinquish our power from fear.

Speak your truth, drunk or sober. Speak truth. For you and I, we must speak the truth, and in that, we free others from us, and us from them in our strength. Over and over again, speak truth, for, in that courage, we learn to be strong without anything but us. ~ I Am - Wisdom ; by Mark - 22 July 2021