“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” Mary Anne Radmacher
Fearlessness, unstoppable, indefatigable, unwavering: what do they all have in common? They’re ideas. Not realities. Everyone falls, and absolutes rarely exist.
Reality is more like getting to the end of the day, looking in the mirror, and realizing we’ve missed the mark, but our story does not end until we decide to quit.
A large portion of humanity, entire religions, believe ‘life is suffering,’ but that’s only half the story. Life is suffering and often defeat, but it’s also learning, growing, persevering, and sometimes if we can hang on long enough, life brings us triumph.
Suffering is only part of the equation of life.
Soldiers, like scholars, and athletes must struggle and suffer through the gauntlet to reach achievement, and sometimes along the way, they suffer tragedy.
Courage then, takes many forms. When we think of courage, we see the gladiator in the arena, sword raised in victory, or the runner bursting through the finish line, but what we don’t see are the countless failures it took to get there.
If we could peer into a journey to success, we’d see numerous defeats, times when it seemed all is lost, followed by a reminder that it’s not over.
So try and remember:
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’
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