ladykatza

Ava’s request - Bravery

I will start with this one, as it was the most general.

For me, being brave is the ability to swallow that lump in your throat, ignore the knot in your stomach, roll up your sleeves and do what needs doing. Sometimes bravery comes out of a desperate need to change your situation. You don’t know what you want, but you can’t her _here_ anymore. So you go. Maybe you are brave enough to take the leap into something new without outside influence. That’s often the hardest thing of all. Many people never change until forced to. Its the rare and special few that see a need to change and do so. They brave the consequences of action, take the mistakes as they come, and keep going.

Bravery, for the sake of itself, can be foolish. Are you just trying to prove something? If so, then what? Then maybe its not bravery, but recklessness.