To me, courage is not feeling like a big, strong roaring lion as you charge fearlessly toward the thing that it is that you so deeply desire.
Courage is feeling small, powerless, screaming at the top of your lungs and risking for that thing you desire anyway.
If we already felt like lions, we wouldn't need courage.
It is too easy to shy away from things that are hard. It is too easy to close our eyes to what we fear we won't get, become, achieve. It is too easy to give in to the fear that it might not work out.
Courage, is doing it anyway. It is the doing it, the risking it, the working for it with your whole heart that is fully living. Sitting on the couch and pretending you don't really want it anyway, is seldom the kind of life people really, deep down want.
We all fail. And sometimes we fail big. But showing up in our lives, working for what we desire, taking the risk, doing it anyway...that is courage.
And we are all born with the capacity for courage.
