I really don't have anything important to say.

I wish someone would explain to me why it appears that the majority of the world makes such a big deal about being scared? It is almost as if it is a taboo to be afraid, or abnormal to have doubts. I do not comprehend why hardly anyone (especially of the people I know) can not actually "practice what they preach." We teach others that fear is normal, and that on many occasions, the credibility of one's own heart is questionable. Often, I find people quoting Ambrose Redmoon, and stating that "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear."

Yet (and here is were I am dumbfounded), appraisal and pride is accredited in those that seemingly lack fear. People without hesitation seem to be the one's recognized. Because one is able to accomplish a task before another, does that make them more couragious?

I don't think so.

Courage is being frightened more thank anything in the world, but having the heart to continue on anyways. It's being able to put aside what quickens your pulse, draws sweat to your forehead, your throat to close, and your thoughts to become sour, so that you can accomplish something monumentally impossible to you as an individual.

Why have we made it into a race? Why has courage become defined by who is less afraid, or accomplishes it faster.

If one is able to stand up and fight their own dark, why should it matter if another did the same with less doubt, or at a faster rate. If light is turned on in a dark place, does it matter who turned it on, or how, for for then it is no longer dark.

Shinning when you believe your flame to be dim is courage.

Courage is courage is courage. Don't tell someone they are not as brave, or as capable because it took them a little longer, or a little more, to finally realize that they can be a light in the darkest of nights.

Do you point out the quality of their fire to illuminate yours that is diminishing?