What is courage? To some people, it is looking over and speaking to a sea of four hundred familiar faces. To others, it is smiling and greeting a person whom they have never met. Still more people would define courage as looking down from the top of a high building without that dizzy feeling, or stepping onto a loop-de-loop roller coaster for the first time. However, all these things I can do without so much …showed first 75 words of 990 total…

…showed last 75 words of 990 total…the most difficult things I've done in my life. I'd done something truly courageous. Courage, for me, was deciding that, for an afternoon, I didn't have to be perfect. I allowed myself to fail for a little while, rest, and pick up my burden later. When I had the courage to admit that I couldn't be perfect, I released an incredible amount of self-inflicted pressure. It's something I have to learn to keep in mind.