It’s not a quality, but a choice a person feels the fear or pain or danger, but chooses to persevere anyway. It’s jumping from the highest diving board without any hesitation.Ĭourage, on the other hand, is the ability to confront something painful or difficult or dangerous despite any fear. To the person who has it, it’s effortless it’s eating a caterpillar on the playground because a friend dares you to, without a second thought.
It’s a quality, not a state of mind it doesn’t need a cause to awaken it.
So the small, but worthy distinctions between them-especially something as delicate as the difference between courage and bravery-are often left unsaid, until decades later when a newsletter pops into your inbox and sets the record straight.īravery is the ability to confront something painful or difficult or dangerous without any fear. We’re taught to emulate these traits in our day-to-day lives: to do unto others, to always tell the truth, to stand up for what’s good and right.īut the bigness of these qualities can overshadow any nuance, especially when there are mysteries to solve or villains to trick or princesses to save. When we’re young, there are a group of virtues that pepper the lessons that we learn, the books that we read, the movies that we watch, the games that we play: Kindness.
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