About a week or more ago I was reading a thread about brave acts. Many and varied acts of bravery were shared. I enjoyed the thread very much, though I did not post. It got me to thinking, for the next few days about the true nature of bravery.
A couple of posters in that thread listed acts which I myself had also performed but had never truly viewed as brave. Though clearly they were. On reflection I began to realise I didn’t see these acts as particularly brave, so, of course I began to wonder what was my most personal act of bravery. I have since come to understand that bravery may be interpretted in the most personal sense. I found my bravest act may well be going to the dentist of which I am unreasonably phobic. So is bravery that individual or do we share common acts of bravery, I wondered.
Then Uncle Kracker came on the radio, you know that song ‘Rescue’;
So won't you come ---- to my rescue,
Shake this pain ----- from my soul,
And take this fool back, in your heart baby,
I'll go crazy, ----- if you don't.
Cause I'm a mess ----- here without you,
Ain't no pill -------- for this pain.
So please, please ---- come to my rescue baby,
Make it right away.
Our friend and fellow poster Kinthalis has a thread about his breakup that is absolutely heartbreaking. It’s clear from the responses it has received that his words have touched many, if not all of us, deeply. I could almost taste that pain. And I could feel the empathy as it poured, heartfelt from the teeming millions.
Now I believe that the bravest act in all the world occurs when we are whipped and beaten down by life. When we’re on our knees, and thinking it might be easier to just lie down. To look within, seeking the strength to get up off our knees, that’s the bravest act there can ever be. Going to the dentist pales in comparison.
And I find it not a little odd that when we experience this moment in our lives, we are profoundly alone. And at the same time this experience binds us to every other living soul on this planet.
That’s all really, except to tell Kinthalis I am sending him my bravest mojo.