COURAGE WITHIN IS STILL RIFE

Seldom do we realise the enormous power of our grey cells. Rarely we admire our success and mostly we succumb to our failures. Oh! I surely know that sounds really cliche but no matter how much I try to shun these lines to accumulate in my tiny brain, they again hit me with a supersonic sound, harder and clearer.

Not before 7 P.M. yesterday, I did see a video on Whatsapp where a brown coloured dog was trying to climb off a gate(long one). Although it tried thrice and failed yet it had the courage enough to try for the fourth time."WOW! It succeeded", I said looking at its consistency and sheer grit and courage. 

Many of you may say,"What kind of courage it is?".However, in my candid opinion courage is not something that accrues to dour looking people. It is a special feeling that makes you strive to achieve what you desire rather than quitting. Courage is in deciding what to do and then incorporating true incessant efforts to achieve our goal even when the clouds of ambiguity surround the result.

When no one stands by you, the conditions seem unfavourable and your life is mere shards of emotions, it's only courage that acts like an elixir to make sure that you walk with your head held high. Nevertheless, who said that courage ensures success. Peradventure, it makes us escape the feeling,

"Oh God!Why didn't I do it?"

or

"Maybe if I had not been coward......."

or

"What have I done to myself?"

to name a few.

Most people quote bravado soldiers and army while talking about courage but I say it's within each one of us. It may be latent or for that matter dormant but it is in our core. In fact, it's pervasive. The more we try to escape from it, the more it will make us feel guilty and remorseful for what we didn't do accruing to our perpetual hesitation in performing the task.

This reminds me of something that I had written nearly one week back. It goes as follows:

Your parents, your creators were courageous for it was their call to give you birth.
Other than their conscious efforts, who else would have bought you on this earth?

Didn't you show your audacity, when you learned how to walk?

Weren't you tenacious enough to cram the countings round the clock?

You were not even third in frog race yet you submitted your name for the next one.
Your declamation speech was ineffective yet never did your temerity shun.

Although you were in a malaise thinking of results of the weekly test
Yet you never extinguished the fire within to have a face-off with another quest.

Your teenage was frivolous and vulnerable yet you mastered the art of self-control.
Burning the midnight oil, you reached your thirties.
Afterall, who said success is a stroll?

Wasn't it a bold step to convince your beloved that you loved her with all your heart?
Ha! Wasn't it arduous to eat the burnt offering by her of the apple tart?

You witnessed your prowess and guts when you banished your decadent child
For whom you swam against the tide to bulwark his radiant smile.

Now, when solitude is all in the end, why are you refraining yourself from courage?
Nevertheless, Shakespeare said,"All the world's a stage."

So why don't you praise yourself for the role you played?
For showing courage during ups and downs  even when you were betrayed,
Admire yourself, love your life.

Don't forget: "COURAGE WITHIN IS STILL RIFE"

-------------------------------------------------------------------©Radhika Gupta(June2,2018)