Undefined Courage Essay

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Undefined Courage

When you hear the word courage you think of bravery or staying strong, well courage can be defined as a lot of things. Risking your life, staying strong through hard times, and carrying on life after losing someone very special, are all examples or courageous acts. Courage cannot be limited to the definition in a dictionary. It is defined by how some people chose to live their life. Every day people around the world hear about courageous stories on the nightly news report. For example, a recent news report told our nation about someone being rescued by strangers after falling onto train tracks. When we see people in mortal danger, we tend to act without considering how risky it would be to save or help them. We do things that we never thought possible. Our level of bravery shoots up and allows us to be “super human” basically. The act of bravery has to be the most unselfish act ever known. Sometimes helping someone in need results in personal injuries. The after-effects of a few of these stories show that some of these heroes now have disabilities. Some people think that courage is only physically but it can be emotional and moral.
I knew a very courageous woman. She fought the biggest battle of life, death. She was told that colon cancer had infected her body at stage four, the worst stage. This amazing woman went through chemotherapy knowing that the medicine was going to kill her healthy cells and put her at a risk for other diseases (like pneumonia). It took an extraordinary amount of courage for her to fight that battle. Once I was told “the brave never give, the strong don’t break, and the courageous beat it” Anje Michelle Miller. She stayed strong through two years of a long hard fight, strong

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