Would you rather be scared and stuck inside your house your whole life, or be able to face your fears in order to make your life exciting? Sometimes you have to use your courage to say, “I have lived through this horror” which is part of the quote by Eleanor Roosevelt used by Kelley Kalafatich in her TED Talk, "Living with Courage: Embracing Fear to Follow Your Heart”. This quote means a lot to me because it shows that the person who used it went through something challenging in them to be able to say it. This quote part of the quote basically means that you can be able to talk about your fear after you use your courage to conquer it. The quote and the message that Kelley Kalafatich expresses in her TEDtalk can be connected to me personally, the arts, and the world. First off, courage can connect to my life in the pursuit of being an NJ state champion for wrestling. Over many years of my life, I have been wrestling, in fact for about 10 years. Most of the years, I competed in states, I did not place at all. But last year was a different story, I made it to the finals with a national champion. I had to win the match to get first and be considered an NJ state champ. But I ended up losing and …show more content…
For example, in the movie, Po is not very good at what he does, Kung Fu, and he upset that he can not be successful. But Po trained and trained to be one of the best Kung fu Pandas ever. Po soon realized that he gained strength from when he was failing and he learned from his mistakes to improve with his skills. In the quote Kelley Kalafatich basically states that failing and making mistakes can help you improve because you can correct your mistakes. That is exactly what Po did and he turned out to be a very talented and aggressive Kung fu Panda. Although this connects to the arts, it also can relate to the world
An example of courage, as the judgment that something else is more important than fear, is through the character of Kak in B for Buster by Iain Lawrence. In this novel, Kak is characterized as a young, determined boy, desiring to turn himself from a comic book reading boy into a World War II hero. Planning to escape his drunken, abusive father, Kak enlists himself in the Canadian Air Force although he is underage and only sixteen years old. During his first mission, he is becomes frightened of the risk of not coming home alive, but doesn?t show his emotions because of his austere, intrepid crewmen. During this mission, Kak did not have an absence of fear, but he felt that becoming a hero like the ones in his comic book, and accomplishing his dream of fly, was more important than his fear of dying.
“…people need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want" (79). Both protagonist learned about the dangers of fear through the tribulations of their journey. Although life may constantly though curveballs our way, it is important to learn how to take risks. One must to have the audacity to continue on. Odysseus, a courageous Greek hero, would not have made it very far if he was apprehensive of taking risks. Instead, he sought
Courage is not simply about how well you deal with fear, how many noble deeds you accomplish, or how you overcome life threatening situations. Courage is the practice of determination and perseverance. Something like, an unwillingness to abandon a dream even when the pressures of society weigh down on your shoulders; society will make you feel tired, humiliated, broken, and confused. Actually, it can be effortlessly said that daily courage is more significant than bouts of great deeds. Since everybody undergoes demanding circumstances on a daily basis, and most of us will not be called to perform a great deed, courage comes from those daily struggles and successes. However, Kate Bornstein is one person who has been able to transform her everyday life into a brilliant deed of courage. She threw herself into an unknown abyss to discover truth that many others would never dare tread. Ingeniously combining criticism of socially defined boundaries, an intense sense of language, and a candid autobiography, Bornstein is able to change cultural attitudes about gender, insisting that it is a social construct rather than a regular occurrence, through here courageous writing.
Mark Twain best described courage when he said that, “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear” (Twain). Both in The One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey and Watership Down by Richard Adams, the authors deal with the topic of courage and each share a similar view on it as this quote. Indeed, both authors suggest that courage is not accumulated simply by acts of heroism, but rather by overcoming fears and speaking one’s mind as well. These books are very similar in the way that bravery is displayed through the characters in an uncommon way. Firstly, an example of bravery
Piscine Molitor Patel, otherwise known as Pi, spends 227 days in a lifeboat on the Pacific Ocean with a tiger named Richard Parker. His stories are told in the book, Life of Pi by Yann Martel. Pi and his family board a cargo ship Tsimtsum with some of their zoo animals to go to Canada. The ship acquires unknown problems and sinks that leaves Pi by himself with an orangutan, zebra, hyena, and a tiger on a lifeboat. The theme of courage despite fear is shown throughout this novel. Pi faces extremely fearful challenges, but courageously confronted them, resulting in innovative and creative solutions.
“There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater.”
Bravery isn't having no fear; it is accepting and welcoming your fears and getting past
...adversity in order to experience the full potential of life. Simile is used to describe the way society limits individuality. Metaphors put emphasis on how one is afraid due to the unknown destination in life. Vivid verbs help to convey the result of one who dwells in distress. In life, people are limited to its full potential due to fear: fear of failure, fear or rejection, fear of humiliation… Many believe that getting rid of fear is the key to become a courageous human being, leading to a perfect life. However, the ultimate goal is to be free from the control characterized by fear, which is moving forward in life despite the presence of fear. With the idea of not letting fear paralyze one from achieving the goals in mind, a promising and abundant life is foreseeable. As Mark Twain once said, “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”
“You can choose courage or you can choose comfort but you cannot have both” brene brown
Throughout one’s life, he or she will experience many situations where a lesson is learned, or a fear is amassed. One person may be able to deal with such terrors easily, while another will suffer because of the dread and panic that now haunts them. The poem ‘My Fear’ by Lawrence Raab discusses the haunting situation of fear following someone, and the personification, imagery, and tone of the speaker all provide depth to this seemingly innocent poem and allow one to truly appreciate how fear and troubles affect him or her.
Ever since the previous season I had my standards set high. I had placed fifth, which was all right for the time being, but I knew as time went on I needed to push myself and increase my level of wrestling. I decided that I would do whatever it took, through thick and thin. I traveled to small local tournaments in Colorado, and a couple out-of-state tournaments, I even traveled to Delaware. It didn't really matter how I did at these tournaments because it was just all practice until February. So, I lifted and wrestled just about every chance I got. It was all in preparation for one match, six minutes.
I feel as though today courage is used majorly as a differentiation between a child and an adult. Thus, the children are not alerted of the upcoming tragedy, since they have not made the transition to adulthood. The children wouldn’t know how to find the good in that situation and live there final hours in peace. Yet, the effect of the parents not telling the children, is the same as if they had as much courage as their parents. The children lived their final hours the same way they had lived the rest, but for a different reason then the parents. The parents lived this way because they believed they had lived life to the fullest, the children did this because of absence of
Here you are, everything you've worked for comes down to this moment. It's the CIF state finals and you are one match away from becoming a state champion. It takes a lot to be a wrestling state champ, It takes a lot of sacrifice and dedication to get to such an elite level. Some say football is the most physically demanding sport, or some might say swimming is. There is no other sport that takes as much sacrifice, persistence, and mental toughness as wrestling. Wrestling always has been and always will be the hardest sport to compete in. Wrestling requires a lot of sacrifice if you want to go far in the sport; it also requires being cautious of what you put into your body 24/7; lastly everything depends on you. It's just you and one other person wanting the win and only one of you is going to get it.
Courage is defined as the ability to do something that frightens one. Building courage in students and enhancing their ability to face challenges of life is an important concept for teachers to understand. Students need to have all of the necessary tools that allow them to feel that they can be successful and that they can be and are important contributing members of society. These sort of tools can be developed in many different areas of life. This paper will focus on the ideas of building courage and acceptance within the educational system as well as in the therapeutic riding setting. The Circle of Courage is a key concept that can and should be used by educators in all areas of student development as well as within the realms of therapeutic riding and psychology.
Often through life, people feel afraid to do certain things, so they use fear as the culprit of their unwillingness. In reality it is the fear itself that holds them back. Yet this can be overcome, for as FDR once said, “The only thing to fear is fear itself.”