It marks you as a warrior, an overcomer, and the person you were always meant to be. Hoping beyond hope that there is love and trust beyond the pain and mistakes of the past.īrave is the purposeful decision to take the next step into the future, knowing full well you have no control over it but are worthy of every good thing.Īnd once you take enough steps, you look back and realize that your bravery has become courage-a virtue that is steadfast in your soul during the valleys and floods. Daring to believe that the light in me is greater than the darkness of my diagnosis. It’s believing that my heart has weathered enough storms that it has the capacity to hold whatever may come for it, and that there is enough faith to make it through any unexpected winters.īrave is hoping that tomorrow might be the dawn of spring, knowing full well that I have been robbed of it in the past.īrave is daring to believe again. Tonight brave is sitting with the fear that tomorrow could be remarkably good or fearfully heartbreaking. Instead of sleeping in I got up, had breakfast, showered, and faced the world. Today, brave was taking my medication on time. It was ordering lunch at the café and fumbling over my change when I paid. It was making connecting flights, and talking to security guards and flight attendants and other travelers. My brave started when I went to counseling.Ī year later, my brave was seeing a second counselor and facing the struggles I hadn’t been ready to vocalize the first time.Ī few days ago, brave looked like getting on an airplane and traveling to a different country. Even though I’m hurting.īrave can take years to work up to, coming in increments over time.
It’s refraining from commenting on social media because it will do me more harm than good. It’s having the tough conversation and facing the conflict instead of pivoting around it in an attempt to keep the peace.
It’s having honest conversations with friends and the confidence that my insecurities will not creep up on me like they once did.īrave is calling people out when what they say hurts me. To be forthright and bold on a new path, treading with the confidence of an army because that is the only way something new can be forged. To be brave is to be settled in the unknown. It means to push anxiety to the side daring to take another single breath, knowing the one after will come a little easier.
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