Courage can be found in a variety of forms. There's courage on a large scale, which includes examples like the brave men and women who helped victims of the marathon bombings, and there's courage on a smaller scale, which includes examples such as completing small personal feats. Despite any one person's view of what courage really is, courage is still courage no matter how small or large the scale. After thinking long and hard about my own experiences with courage, I realized that my life is incredibly risk free and boring. The first situation involving courage that came to my mind was obtaining a drivers license.
Obtaining a drivers license is no over night task. To obtain a license it requires 30 hours in a sweltering library with Mr. C, 6 hours sitting in the back of a car driven by one of your inexperienced piers, 12 hours driving with a stranger you have never met, 40 hours driving with your over anxious mother and a driving test that takes no longer than 5 minutes. Basically, if anyone wants a drivers license they need to have a lot of time, dedication and patience.
For me, obtaining a drivers license was very courageous because I lack good social skills. I put myself into situations i felt very uncomfortable in for numerous hours, and forced myself to wake up at 5am on a Saturday to show up at the QMS parking lot only to sit in a bus awkwardly for an hour and then to be judged by some stranger i have never seen before and will never see again. If the experience of obtaining a drivers licence taught me anything it would be that taking healthy risks is a positive experience. Oh, and also that if talking to people is considered courageous I need to put myself out there more often.
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