Think, think quickly decide. When was the last time you did something courageous? Did you go to the poorest part of your city and give food to the hungry? Did you find a clinic where people were dieing from aids? Did you hold them in your arms comforting them as they slowly slip away? When was the last time you did anything noteworthy?
I think we are all becoming cowards. I am not measuring courage as being willing to die for a cause, but instead I’m suggesting courage is trying to make the world a little better. Instead of going to work everyday trying to make a car payment, or just scrape by.
How can life be worth living everyday in an empty consumerist daze? Wake up, buy coffee, drink coffee, go to work, get off work, buy dinner, buy liquor, rent a movie go home fall asleep alone defeated depressed. Yea, that’s going to change the world.
Is there something better? Do you think maybe falling asleep exhausted after working the whole entire day on the street trying to help the poor may feel better than after too many beers at the bar? Maybe consumerism isn’t going to go away over night. Maybe we can’t save everyone.
Courage isn’t the ability to stop this world from being a place where people suffer and die for no reason. Courage is being able to know that you are personally trying to make this place a world where at least fewer people suffer and die by the hands of the cooperate global elites. Courage is the strength to protect at least one person from the evil excesses of the bourgeois.
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