Life Expectancy: 65 Years
Claud
An avid collector of your hopes and worries, a romantic at heart.
She thanks her fairies, for blessing her with people who know compassion down to an art.
For accepting her for who she is, who never fails to turn up,
in times of need as well as happiness, or just there for a loving hug.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Courage
Remember the urban legend of a Philosophy major from university who submitted a blank page for an essay titled "courage"?
Just this night I was talking to Cindy Moy (not Lim..haha) about being frank and everything...
Reminded me what my school counsellor used to tell me.
It takes courage for an individual to accept bad comments about yourself. Not all are willing to ingest that piece of information and some actually feel they are better off denying it.
She then added that it actually takes more courage for the opposite party to tell those unsavoury comments TO you. Because he/she has more risk of losing your friendship, then you losing them.
Perhaps Courage is to do something which you know will have grave consequences, good or bad, but still find the heart to carry it through because you know you cannot live with yourself if you do not do it.
Courage, i feel, is sometimes willpower and kindness personified, verbalised or "verb-alise".
I don't think i have the courage to tell someone something i have been wanting to say for a long time. The longer the relationship, the harder it is to take the risk to let it go. I'll only have that courage, when i'm prepared to let go.
I'm not prepared to let go just yet.
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