courage
is a hard thing to figure.
Courage is
a hard thing to figure.
You can have courage based on a dumb
idea or mistake, but you’re
not supposed to question
adults, or your coach or your
teacher, because they make
the rules. Maybe they know
best, but maybe they don’t.
It all depends on who you are,
where
you come from. Didn’t
at least one of the six hundred
guys think about giving up,
and
joining with the other
side? I mean, valley of death
that’s pretty salty stuff. That’s
why courage it’s tricky. Should
you always do what others tell
you to do?
Sometimes you might
not
even know why you’re doing
something. I mean any fool can
have courage. But honor, that’s the
real
reason for you either do something
or you don’t. It’s who you are and
maybe who you want to be. If you
die trying for something important,
then you have both honor and courage,
and that’s pretty good. I think
that’s
what
the writer was saying, that you
should hope for courage and try for
honor. And maybe even pray that the
people telling you what to do have some,
too.
-Michael Oher
