Courage and Will Power
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
: Jim Hightower
Courage and will power ... just words ... fear and conformity seem to trump ... it's much easier to just let things happen than to take a chance and make an effort to achieve what we want ... many just let others decide for them by their sheer inaction ... they wait around around for others to decide where, when and what to do ... this goes for everything in their lives ... from social engagements, to sex, to romance--if that can be called romance ...
I recently met a long time friend who has been with someone for 10 years!!!! There was never any love or romance, but he settled for the familiarity and the routine -- and now he finds himself with a person that he just feels a certain affection for and realizes he may have stayed because he would have felt guilty leaving the guy ... the sex that was occasionally good is now nothing more than routine: "We often just end-up napping together." --what romance!!!!!! such excitement ... he now has emptiness and the longing for something more ... "if I had gone for someone I loved, for something more exciting ... but at least I am not alone" .... the sad thing is that he is alone!! he does not realize it or chooses not to --- denial is a nifty little tool ... but even now, he continues in his pattern of conformity with the occasional fantasy about this or that one guy he meets, but still tied to his long term routine -- lonely, unhappy, dissatisfied, unfulfilled
Courage and will power ... few have the daring spirit to seek fulfillment in their lives ... !!!!!!
: Jim Hightower
Courage and will power ... just words ... fear and conformity seem to trump ... it's much easier to just let things happen than to take a chance and make an effort to achieve what we want ... many just let others decide for them by their sheer inaction ... they wait around around for others to decide where, when and what to do ... this goes for everything in their lives ... from social engagements, to sex, to romance--if that can be called romance ...
I recently met a long time friend who has been with someone for 10 years!!!! There was never any love or romance, but he settled for the familiarity and the routine -- and now he finds himself with a person that he just feels a certain affection for and realizes he may have stayed because he would have felt guilty leaving the guy ... the sex that was occasionally good is now nothing more than routine: "We often just end-up napping together." --what romance!!!!!! such excitement ... he now has emptiness and the longing for something more ... "if I had gone for someone I loved, for something more exciting ... but at least I am not alone" .... the sad thing is that he is alone!! he does not realize it or chooses not to --- denial is a nifty little tool ... but even now, he continues in his pattern of conformity with the occasional fantasy about this or that one guy he meets, but still tied to his long term routine -- lonely, unhappy, dissatisfied, unfulfilled
Courage and will power ... few have the daring spirit to seek fulfillment in their lives ... !!!!!!