Saturday, February 12, 2011

Fear and Courage

I found this article on Psychology Today titled "The F Word (and the C Word)." No, it's not about the F word and C word that people generally think of immediately. The F Word is "Fear" and the C Word "Courage."

One line that caught my eye was:
According to these researchers, the difference between courage and fearlessness is the aspect of feeling the fear and doing it anyway.
I guess that's like that time on the 737 when every muscle in my body was screaming at me to run when I was at the front of the queue, but I just told the toilet door to "stop looking at me like that" (yes, I actually did mutter that under my breath), went into the dreaded toilet cubicle once it was vacant, locked the door, did my business and FLUSHED THE DAMN THING.

1 comment:

  1. yay!
    I've seen that in many books. Not the flushing of the aeroplane toilet (that would be wierd), but the "Courage isn't the absence of fear; It's the acknowledgement of that fear, and still having the will to act despite being afraid."

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