Hope and courage two words that impact my life
everyday. Hope is simply a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain
thing to happen. And courage on the other hand is the ability to do something
that you know is right or good, even though it is dangerous, frightening or
very difficult. For me courage and hope were needed many times through out my
life. My first thought is courage is used in everyday life by
staying consistent with everyday goals and values. It’s hard to not do the
"right" thing in life and so often we wish to take the easy way out,
even if no one sees. So courage is being true to you and then the rest of the
world will look at that as courageous.
Courage
is part of your true-self. we were born with it. Examples of courage for me is
the moment we get out of bed in the morning especially the winter in Canada. It
takes courage to make friends or be dedicated, honest worker or student. And it
also takes courage to face life issues and accept responsibility in our lives.
And when we get older it takes that courage to be an good examples to our
children and make them realize what kind of world we live in and that it is forever changing.
I always keep three statements to myself that take courage and the first one is apologize. It takes courage to admit when you are wrong and you did something
bad. The second one is be yourself. Don’t imitate anyone let the world see your true
identity and who you are. And the third one is to take responsibility. It’s us who
make the choices in our lives not others, so if you don’t like what you see then
change it by making good choices and that will give you the appropriate
consequences.
Hope
on the other hand was my second friend who impacted my life. For me hope
usually arrives when things are very difficult. And in those difficult moments
we able to discover the possibilities still present, and that’s when hope
appears. Having a positive sense of hope in our lives is important. Without
hope you can’t advance you career to the next levels. Also you can’t full fill
relationships with others without it. And most of all you can’t discover the
purpose of our lives that god gave us. I’m going to talk about a example of me
realizing the significance of courage and hope. When I was in grade 10 everyone
was talking about the same thing and that was “work”. Apparently everybody had jobs and they were just talking about it in front of
people who didn’t have any, and I was one of them. The time flew really fast
and I was getting annoyed by people
telling me “get a job”. I told myself i was going to get one, but i was too
lazy to get one. However, it was time for me to step up my game and get on with
my life as well as my career, so I made resumes which you need to get a job
and went outside in the winter by myself in a blizzard and gave resumes to all the
stores that were near my house. You see you are probably thinking what does
this have to do anything with hope or courage, but it took courage for me to step up and get my life going and hoping that I would
get a job. It takes a real man to face the difficult situations no matter what
in you life but you still have to keep fighting those and take the right
pathways.
Courage
and hope were big part of my life. They were there for me when I needed them and
were right beside me in every moment in my life. Again courage doesn’t mean you
don’t get afraid, courage means you don’t let fear stop you. You have to have
courage as well as hope when we get out bed and continue the rest of the day.
Courage doesn’t always roar, sometimes its that little voice in your mind that
says at the end of the day “i’ll try
again tommorrow”.
-By Samila Walgama
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