Courage The True Story

Courage The True Story

    A courageous moment isn’t all that rare. People may never be a war hero or the one to save a baby from a burning building, but people show courage. It is something that people have come to push aside of our thoughts and think nothing of. Well that’s not true, we can all be courageous and strong in our own ways. I have never really been one to stand up against an act of hatred or frustration, but that is because I wasn’t given the chance.

I was always one to be cast aside, picked on, and pushed down by society and my peers. I was not able to protect myself and I was burned with the flame of words. I couldn’t stand up for myself and my friends wouldn’t help me. Yet I am one to have learned the greatness of courage. I have most likely shown it time and again in many situations. Either blind or driven, it’s a strong force that helps compel us in many ways. It protects us from the darkness that shrouds us and the sting of words. It helps us in school, work, and even in people's own homes.

I may have never shown a moment of heroic courage, but I can see it in everyday life. I could sit silently on a city block and watch some people show courage, from stop a pickpocket, to helping the people cast aside by society. They show true courage. It’s not news breaking, but its courage hard and true. They ignore the people who look upon us so cruelly, and help those who can’t help themselves. How it’s always with us to help us strive for are goals.

Courage also may be seen with hope, truth, and valor. It links with many things in the scout law and oath. Most of us read these to think this is what we are. We need to do what we say and prove what we are. For it even takes courage to be a scout. We as scouts will do what those who look down on us or what those are too lazy to do and help those in need. These just consist of helping people in things we do, like food drives, helping with dinners, or to help at the church. Courage has to be one of scouts’ strongest traits that we bare. For we are the helpers of society.

Scouts do not only follow in the acts of courage but live by it as well. As a scout progresses through their life and ranks the scout oath and law will harden within the scout. Courage is no exception and expresses itself better and better as the scout moves on. Most things starting scouts won’t do when they begin scouting they are willing to do at the end. That is the evolution of courage, and how just from a few years of activities and being around friends you adapt to express courage in many things.

To see courage proving its valor and overcoming power just look at history. Good or bad intentions, leaders need to show courage. The Roman Empire, the Mongrel Empire, and even Napoleon’s army; they had only two major things in common, and that courage and the desire for power. Without courage no one would even be able to throw out a corrupt ruler or a crooked law enforcer. Courage brings binding for it cannot separate us, and we shall not be separated from its embrace.

Another thing true courage will aid you in accomplishing is your American Dream. All of these examples of courage are what will help lead you to your American Dream. With true courage you are able to see your own path and break away from the ones others told you to walk. This will be a test of courage in every Americans life to see will they flow with the river or move from its flowing current. This is what should be laid out before you a guide not a path.

Now through all of this I have talked about who shows courage, how, and what, but I haven't expressed the definition of courage. The definition of courage is overcoming one's fears to accomplish the task. For a simple quote I remember “Without fear there cannot be courage.” written by Christopher Pauline. That simple line expresses the reason we always show courage not to show our strength and power, but to overcome the fear. Relating to earlier examples let's look at the man who helps someone cast out by society. This isn't to get attention or to get anything it's for fear of another human's life. Another example is the Cub Scout that in the beginning may be afraid to give a speech to a group of people, but now will give and write speeches for people time and again. This is the expression of true courage and why over all other traits and all the scout laws it shows most for it is the hardest to obtain, yet the most powerful to use.

By William Goodman