We all have a story. We all have a memory that will never flee our minds. It could be that lurking thought from your six-year-old self, a haunting reel of words once said, or a time of regret from years back. Bravery is not just gathering the courage to save someone else's life or to save your own, but rather, it's placing yourself on an edge so overhanging on defeat, fear, and criticism that you lose yourself in the distant comfort of the unfamiliar.
Bravery is to expect the likelihood of an unpleasant consequence, yet find yourself yearning for that thrill of uncertainty. It can be the smallest feat in a month's long work, or the most grand appraisal on a high platform, or even an unexpected spurt of call-to-action times. If anything else, expelling such bravery takes the most out of one's strengths—replacing breaths with gasps of exhaustion and filling one's stomach with weighted lumps.
To be brave... don't we all wish we were?
Bravery.
To sacrifice a love when the world gave you none
We put ourselves astray and upfront for someone
To be brave we hone in on valor in faces of shun
Bravery.
Having the nerve to strike back against a higher word
It's a survivor's life when all hope has been blurred
It's within the actions and feelings of words unheard
Bravery.
Why propose an idea and not carry through?
It's the promise of successes where ambitions once grew
And yet greeting defeat with the warmest thank you
Bravery.
It's when danger becomes obsolete to physical states
It's ignoring the pain as your fears begin to escalate
Abiding with goals over where your life could play bate
Bravery.
To love yourself when someone abused your soul
Walking away untarnished and refuting the cold
It's reminding yourself you've been nothing short of whole
Bravery.
Saying goodbye when time has depleted
Accepting damage when it's only wounds that you've treated
It's living life's risks without ever having cheated
Bravery.
The tolerance of comparisons where lines have been drawn
To redirect your visions towards that of what's most strong
It's enduring the harm of all that could have been wrong
Bravery.
Showcasing courage and overcoming fears
Bravery is the internal state who's ending is unclear
To smile in the face of danger's impending frontier
Bravery is to be aware of your position against those all around you—to accept the rash, impulse decisions for the hope of something remarkable to come about. It's the most challenging characteristic to perform, and yet makes us most vulnerable. To ask someone to be brave? You can't. It's instilled within the most desultorily circumstances of chance and whim. To perform such acts of bravery? You can't ever foresee the matter.
