Voltaire may have said “Courage mon brave” but I sometimes wish I was braver than I am.
To employ a sporting metaphor from baseball (and quote the West Wing):
Too often I let the pitch sail by. I watch the ball fly by my nose without swinging for it.
I wish I had more courage, more of a hang it all attitude. I guess my tendency to see where things fall first is part of my survival method- wait to see what everyone else thinks and then slot into niches.
But then the thing I like about this blog is that I'm putting my ideas out there first, shoving an idea under someones nose and saying what do you think of that?
Generally the opinion is utter indifference but every blog post scares me slightly and I want to hit the delete button or go back and radically rewrite so as not to offend anyone.
How does one go about making oneself braver?
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This is where I wish I had a vault of ready made quotes locked in my brain.
Thinking out loud, the two sides of the coin are bravery and foolhardiness. If you're right - you're brave. If you're wrong - you're foolish. And as no-one is right all the time there will be times when you are foolhardy more than brave.
So to be truly brave you need to accept you'll be wrong at times and prepare to accept those consequences.
To really answer your question, it is just a case of trying it. As in life sometimes you have to simplify things and march straight ahead.
Sometimes, it is braver to step back from the fray, assess, then come to a conclusion.
Maybe you are that type of brave person, and Lord knows we could do with more of them.