Courage and Fear

Courage and Fear, both are born from the same place. They begin with not knowing.

Heroes start the journey from that place of naivety, not knowing their own ability or what they might face. Nonetheless they throw themselves into it, as a moth dives into the fire. They cannot be afraid if they have no experience to make them so. “What we don’t know can’t hurt us.” This is the innocence of youth.
Yet on the other side of this innocence is fear of what we do not know. We become heroes when we discover fear and have the courage to surpass it. This takes little effort for some, but most of us will meet with setbacks, those who block us, and our own self-doubt. If we can just push beyond those things, the journey’s path will open before us and we may move forward.
These setbacks are the “riddles” the hero must answer in order to continue.

“Courage is not the absence of fear. It is going forward with the face of fear.” Abraham Lincoln

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.” Eleanor Roosevelt