This fan’s reaction?
That's all certainly wonderful and very well deserved . . . but another view of courage is:
When you face square on without flinching anything but a certain future because you exercised the singular courage to be yourself . . . you accept responsibility for that decision and you keep fighting.
When your family turns its back on you and walks away . . . you grieve for a time but you keep fighting.
When you're thrown into chronic unemployment or underemployment and you watch helpless as your career drains through your fingers like grains of sand . . . you cry privately but you keep fighting.
When you daily face the indifference and the indignities of others you pick yourself up a little taller, you smile graciously . . . and you keep fighting.
You thank whichever or whatever you revere in your heart for what health and strength you have and what friendships you enjoy . . . and you just keep fighting.
You fight on because while the temptation to give up is ever present whispering beguilingly in your ear how easy it would be to give in, you understand that real courage is rising each day from an always fitful sleep refusing to listen to it.
Does it get better? You won’t know unless you stubbornly march on to meet that day hopeful for its advent yet never sure in your heart if you’ll recognize it should you overtake it.
That's a kind of courage too.
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