What does courage mean to you?

Hello lovely Positivity and Gratitude Community, I hope all of you are doing well ❤️ Today we are talking about Courage - what it is, some lessons drawn from a character I really look up to and then let's have a discussion on the benefits of cultivating courage!

Courage is defined as the ability to control your fear in a dangerous or difficult situation. Dangerous here could mean a lot of things, subjectively it is anything that threatens your sense of identity, puts your life at risk or just about anything that could potentially lead you to be helpless. Courage in these times could be the most important thing for us. When you speak in front of a bully and ask them to leave you/the bullied person alone, you showed courage. When you think you're going to fail a test or not do well on a job interview but you do it anyway, you show courage. When you are doing something despite being fearless knowing doing it would reap good results, you're being courageous and it's never a little thing. As Brene Brown said, "Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen."

I've recently started watching My Hero Academia, so the character that I'm learning a lot from, I'd like to share about him. His name is Midoriya Izuku, I wouldn't talk about the show in itself, just some instances where Izuku, a boy who was 'quirkless' was still someone way better than one with a quirk. Quirks here basically means some kind of superpower like invisibility, explosion, ice, strength, etc. So, here are a few lessons I learned from Midoriya Izuku:

🦋 Sometimes you may have to just keep fighting. As someone who is easily held back by fear and setbacks, this is a reminder I intend to keep with me for long. Often times, we think "we have tried x number of times, it just won't work now." While that could be true, sometimes trying is the most we can do. Maybe tomorrow we won't get the results we want, but some tomorrow, whenever that will come, our efforts will pay off because of the snowball effect, these little things we do aren't so little, they add up to be a lot.

🦋 When things seem hopeless, that's when holding on to hope and your own abilities matter the most. We've all had moments we felt like giving up, like we just couldn't go on. It's a stressful and extremely difficult time for sure. We may feel like trying is leading to no good so why bother expending that much energy on this. However, you never know what result you'll get. Sometimes despite how hopeless things may be, we have to persevere, there's no way around it. We have to get tough and push through. We have to believe in ourselves and make sure we achieve our goals.

🦋 Having a role model helps. We all have someone we really look up to, we all know why right? Yet, how many of us are trying to be like them? Or at least aspiring to. How many of us want to be someone else can look up to? How many of us want to be the domino that falls first? Izuku has a role model that he looks up to, so much that whenever he's about to lose a fight, he just thinks of him and gets such a great rush and energy that he defeats his opponent. Having someone you can look up to boosts your morale, it gives you an idea of what qualities you're trying to harvest in yourself and also lets you want to push through. It helps you to never lose sight of where you come from and where you're planning to go.

Question. How do you plan on cultivating your courage and what will you be doing today to make sure you're getting a step closer?

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