Courage

  Nothing is impossible. People simply believe that some things in life are impossible. As such we tend to take the best alternative choice available to us, right in front of us. There is a road dustier than the Sahara, colder than your ex's heart, and seems as far as travelling to the Moon by foot. All of us see it, but few take it. Courage. A quality lost by time and age.

  What has become of us these days... Perhaps I could refer to myself too. After all no one is perfect in this world. using "bravery" seems too mainstream, so I decided to use a more philosophical word today. Everyday(I really mean it...) my courage is tested. I am always tested on whether I have the balls to fight for what I really want, and THAT includes CCA. A rather simple experience had inspired me to keep this up... it went like this:

  I wanted to participate in a trial for Badminton CCA. My purpose was initially for the pleasure of playing with friends, not for an all-out assault for a qualification in the ever-competing CCA. Everyone had their friends with them. Of course I do have friends trying out for that too. Coincidentally, I saw Sir Frozen-Life(A really emotional person, but a great friend on the long run). Apparently he was also trying out for a position with the sole intention of having fun. He tagged along with me, even though our registered positions were at least 70 counts away from each other(He got 40+, I was 119). When it was my turn...

  12 of us were selected for one-on-one duels. Apparently everyone else were professional badminton players except for me, someone who only touched a badminton racket since 3 years. I wasn't a competitive person at all. 11 of them could easily humiliate me with their fancy standard skills of swinging their rackets like rackets. That was boring. However what I did was... Guess what? I was the one who humiliated my opponent because I had the courage and idea to troll them. Switching from racket standard to Ton-Fa-style to baseball-style, I actually beat my opponent. He had the "WTF" look on his face, then laughed with me. Of course, not EVERYONE seemed satisfied with my courageous and silly play-style. The judge never looked me at the eye since then, and chose a more suitable, standard player for the team. Overall... I had much fun.

  Courage is something you could call a "spice in life". Try swallowing your guts and go for what you want. There is no guarantee that everything will go your way, but at least you might get that feeling of "I did something and am proud of it". Trust me, that's how I feel whenever I expressed my thoughts and opinions in class, and did something an average human could do for credits in participation. I have doubts about something, I would raise it up and clear my mind of it. I have a rather general yet original thought about something, I would share it with my cronies.

  My one and only fear in life is no other than "stasis", where everything is bound by Fate and destroyed by Fate. Knowing my karma for whatever shit I have done in my previous life, I cannot stand to watch everything around me twist into odds against me. I mean... Would it be wiser to act and change things, or wait and observe your world crumble? For me, it definitely isn't the latter. There are other silly thoughts in my mind right now that too require courage. From Business Comm lesson to chatting with my crush(which had already been fulfilled two years ago) to saving the world from certain death. These require a mind to think of, and courage to admit I am actually thinking of such stuff. Beat that! >;D

  Apologies for going out of topic... But do you remember "The Chrysalids"? Where the setting around the main protagonist, David, reflected the total opposite of his life as a telepath, as a place of anti-change? He would live, along with his fellow telepathic friends, forever in caution and fear of discovery. Such an insecure life with a chance of it ending them once and for all. Such a life where odds are blatantly against them, and chances of discovery were almost too obvious. Yes, they did make a change in it. They turned the tables by fleeing into another world, the Fringes.

  Change is inevitable, they said. But is it really inevitable? One could simply sit on his couch all day and do nothing about his health, and later die and regret not flowing along the river of change. Only some changes are made possible through courage. You can do it, but do you too have the courage to change the world?