What one means by 'courage'.

Courage . What is it ?
Is it a something we create ? Or is it within us?
I say it's a mixture of both.

There have been people who have left me alone when I needed them the most. To me , courage is being alone and meeting all challenges all by myself. At first you always feel the brunt of the loneliness but later you just get used to it and stop getting bothered by those people who clearly shouldn't matter to you. Facing the world alone takes nerves and that bravery comes with time.

There are also always going to be people who try to show you down all the time. Those people can never tolerate your success and yet you put up with them just because you don't want to loose them and they are important to you. It's like blind and impaired love. Courage is finding the voice inside your heart and not letting them control the reins to your life. Courage is finding that respect for yourself which is greater than your love or obsession with this person who doesn't respect or love who you are. To get rid of that person who constantly questions your life choices even if it is going to hurt you a bit .

Lastly , courage is finding yourself, being yourself despite all the ways in which the world judges you and facing all the people who have tried to put you down with a high head.

Courage does not mean being emotion less and discrete like people portray it to be. It is not even having an opinion about everything just to take a stand on things you don't even know about.

Courage is telling yourself that you are good enough and believing in it. It is that feeling that makes you confident and that allows you to follow your dreams.

It is simply something that is well hidden within you. All it takes is a little exploring of the self and a little perseverance to find that brave person that you are and have always been.

Hence, it is nothing but a mixture of creation and self awareness!