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What is courage? To some people, it is looking over and speaking to a sea of four hundred familiar faces. To others, it is smiling and greeting a person whom they have never met. Still more people would define courage as looking down from the top of a high building without that dizzy feeling, or stepping onto a loop-de-loop roller coaster for the first time. However, all these things I can do without so much …

…the most difficult things I've done in my life. I'd done something truly courageous. Courage, for me, was deciding that, for an afternoon, I didn't have to be perfect. I allowed myself to fail for a little while, rest, and pick up my burden later. When I had the courage to admit that I couldn't be perfect, I released an incredible amount of self-inflicted pressure. It's something I have to learn to keep in mind.