Kelly Kalafatich: Living With Courage

Courage is an important quality to have, because everyone can’t always be afraid of everything and let their fears hold them back. Sometimes people have to do things that they don’t want to do, or they have to face their fears.

“Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is being afraid and doing it anyway.” This quote said by Lou Gehrig explains that courage isn't about having no fear; but rather, it is about one being filled with fear and deciding that something or someone is greater than that fear. In the book, The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford, the protagonist, Henry Lee, turns against the will of his father and his own country values to run after forbidden love. Even though Lee is afraid, he courageously proceeds to follow his heart.

Courage is as stated in The New International Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language to be “the capacity to meet danger or difficulty with firmness.” In my mind courage has always meant doing what you had to do, and dealing with it because you had to. I never had a choice in my life whether I wanted to move to a different city

True bravery is when you’re aware that the odds are against you, however, you have the ability to persevere through it. Even though you don’t want to complete the task ahead of you, an inner force brings you the motivation to do it. Sincere courageousness doesn’t always entail violence; in fact, courage comes from the choices made within that affect yourself or those around you. The outcome may not always be to your advantage, but

When you have courage, you will have to make harder decisions. But you have to know that it will end up ok. It is important to gain courage to protect others, forgive oneself, and protect oneself.

Did you know successful people are proven to have more courage than those who are not successful? A quote from Kelley Kalafatich does a good job explaining this fact, “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face…”. This quote explains that courage is the ability to face your fears and pursuing the path that you want to. Courage is a very exceptional quality to have because it helps a person succeed in life. Courage lets you face your fears and move on with life. Courage allows you to make decisions that you don’t regret later on in your life. There are many people around us that show the quality of courage. Having courage builds integrity

Everyone has the potential for courage, however, not everyone takes advantage of it. Imagine the nerd taking advantage of talking to the pretty girl in the lunch-room and compare it to not taking the chance. Similarly, in Harper Lee’s story,”To Kill a Mockingbird”, characters employ their wits in order to overcome adversity. Frankly, when used, courage can help with the impossible.

Sometimes we feel like we have no courage at all and then at other times we feel like we have all the courage in the world. There were many times in my life where I felt like I had a lot of courage, and times where I felt like I had no courage at all. Courage is also a theme in the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. It is important to have courage because it makes people happy, it can help people get out of risky situations, and it makes people more confident in themselves.

Fear. As I walked into the huge, unfamiliar building of Gibson Southern High School on my first day of freshmen year, I shook with terror. New teachers, new people, new classes, and a new environment that I yearned to explore, but anxiety filled my body. I had previously attended Haubstadt Community School, where I finally felt comfortable and now everything seemed frightening and different. Although my body told me not to, I forced myself to push through the day with a positive attitude. After all, this would be my home for the next four years.

The word courage has been tossed around for centuries. From Christopher Columbus to Drake. The definition is knowing that something scares the living daylights out of you, but facing it anyway. The thing is, there are many different ways to look at courage. For example, perhaps a book about courage. Let's take The Schwa Was Here by Neal Shusterman. The book relates to courage because it show many examples of it by explaining some dares, challenges and messes two kids, one half Invisible, go through. The main person who shows courage is The Schwa, because he has to listen to a bothersome story, sneak into a cranky mans house, even though the whole town is scared of it, and gets in trouble with airport security.

Courage, courage is standing for what’s right and going out of your comfort zone. Standing for what u believe in. Don’t be afraid of doing the impossible. Courage is hard to have but at the right time and the right place it will show.

Theme: One lesson I learned is that you can’t judge people if they are different. In this book, Auggie has a disorder on his face. Many people stay away from him because of that. Inreality they just judged the funniest person they have ever met. Auggie always could feel when people were staring at him. He hated it. Summer witnessed this happening. She knew she had to do something, so she did. Another lesson this book taught me is that life is what you make it. Auggie had the fear of dying a lot. He went through tons of life threatening surgeries. He hated them, but he aleays had a laugh with his friends and enjoyed every second of living. I never through about what would happen if I was in his place and had to hope I lived through a surgery.

Courage is the ability to do something that frightens one. I always thought I possessed enough courage, until one day it was tested. My biggest fear was losing my grandmother. Although the thought of it made me sick; I always told her she wouldn’t go alone. I said it with ease and confidence, not knowing how scary it would really be. Then what I feared most was happening right before my eyes. My grams and I were alone at the house, just hanging out. I was going to take a shower, but she said she had to go to the bathroom; she went before me. All of a sudden I hear a big boom! I ran to the bathroom and my sweet grams was lying on the floor unconscious. I picked her head up because she wasn’t breathing good. I

When you think about courage you think about having the strength to do something that is brave and you're not frightened to do something. Some words that describe courage is bravery, and strong. Although the time I needed courage is when I went to Florida and I wanted to ride a huge roller coaster. When I was in sixth grade I went to sea world and I saw all the fun rides and shows there. However, I saw something terrifying it was the tremendous roller coasters. I wanted to go on all of the rides in Sea World but I was to frighten to go on Manta which was a humongous roller coaster out of all the roller coasters there. This roller coaster slides, spins, and turns around and it makes you feel dizzy after you get off. But my whole entire family

Courage is a necessity to overcome fears and achieve a desired goal. Fear is something that exists in all of us. There is no hero or any particular courageous figure that is without fear. Being fearless is not required to be courageous, one simply has to look past or overcome their fears to possess this great quality. When overcoming fears and going against the norm, there are always risks involved. There are different types of risks that come about. Someone could risk life or limb, while others risk their reputation. Either risk is serious enough that a person must have courage to endure that particular risk. Courage can occur anytime, anywhere, and often in our everyday lives. Everyone will experience courage no matter how young,