Living with courage

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Living with courage

I'm am reading Victims No Longer the 2nd edition. It is the fourth book I have read on the subject of being a survivor in the last two months.

I have a tendency (well, maybe more than that) to look at the failures and the not-measuring-up in my life. Very hard to focus on the positive.

But I was reading "Keith's Statement" and a line hit me that I had to read over and over again. It was "Our only choice is to live in fear or live with courage".

Since I KNOW what fear is and I am moving against my fear for the first time in my life, it dawned on me that I am living with courage! Wow! What a concept. I realized I am not the sniveling coward trying to escape, but instead the man of courage to face the fear, no matter how hard and heavy it is.

May seem like a small realization to some, but to me it is like an epiphany!

Peace,

Marc
 
Marc,

It took courage to type "male rape victim" or whatever into the box and Google. It took courage to come to this place and read. It took courage to register. It took a great uncommon courage to write. It took courage to support the organization as a member.

You have been showing courage to all of us here for quite a while now.

Thanks,

Joe
 
You are a man of courage. A man of cowardice would not be attempting to make his life better. He would not be facing the past, and working at accepting what he cannot change. He would not be looking at himself, in attempts to learn more of himself. You are a man of courage, of strength, and of dignity. Good for you.

Leosha
 
Marc,

Would a man without courage face what you're facing, and LIVE with it?

Nay.

It was in the comic book "Daredevil" that I read the following quote, "a man without fear is a man without hope."

You're facing your fear and you're managing it. THAT'S the mark of courage.

Peace and love,

Scot
 
Survival doesn't occur without courage and we are survivors.
 
"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive."
-Robert Louis Stevenson

"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are."
- e.e. cummings

"You can't test courage cautiously."
- Annie Dillard
 
Marc,

What a wonderrul posting!!!!!!!!!!

I am so very proud of you!!!!!!!!!!!

Keep moving forward and reading and healing and recovering and being a friend!

Peace and Love!

TJ
 
Marc,

You are definately living with courage. You are walking away from the fear you lived in. Keep that up.

Take care and thanks for posting,
Bill
 
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