Just Thoughts and Nothing Else

If you ever thought about courage before you know sometimes what it takes to have it even when you have such fear in your heart to stand up and be present!

I feel for people who have had great fears in their lives because I know of such fear and I think most of us do.  I think of people who have a  handicap, because even though they have overcome the fear of their handicap, they sometimes can't get past the fear of just entering a room filled with strangers because of the fear of being laughed at, judged, or talked about.
Maybe their fear when entering a room is just the fear of not being humiliated by their own handicap because no one can actually see what it is!




I feel for people who fear walking into a room just because they are afraid of crowds, or maybe of leaving the safety of their own home.  Maybe they feel people are judging them on how they look, act or maybe just because they've changed their weight over the years?











It takes courage to do what our firefighters and our men/women in the service of our country do.
So as brave as they appear to be, there is always fear in our hearts for something.

So when I think of Courage, I know that we all have fears and for all of us it takes courage some days just to get up and face another day of fears!
Whatever the case may be, whatever the pain in your stomach can feel like, keep taking those risks, keep facing that fear, keep up your courage because people aren't as bad as we think they are, and maybe you'll be surprised to find out that the majority of them have good, kind hearts and aren't thinking about us at all, but rather just trying to be kind and understanding of us.

It's really our fear, not theirs. People just aren't as bad as we can imagine. 

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