Courage

Never considered myself a courageous person, but I strived for becoming one. It was confusing until I realized what courage is.

Courage is doing what you feel is right, against all comfort or self-preservation instincts. And once this definition was formed in my mind, I realized that I have some courage in me.

That courage is mostly present in my work. I never shy away of suggesting the best solution for a problem even if that solution may render me unfit to apply it, and ultimately redundant. I never thought of this as courage, but I always go out of my comfort zone and then make it my comfort zone—as corny as it may sound. This is why my skill set may seem all over the place. From marketing to design, from front-end to back-end development.

I realized that doing the right thing is a liberating feeling, even though it may feel like a self-punishment at first. This pattern happened again and again, and thus it’s time to apply it in my personal life. The time has come to get out of my comfort zone.

Figure out the goals you feel are right and march under the flag of doubt and fear to reach them. And when you reach them, don’t be shy of naming the journey “courage”.

“We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” – J. F. Kennedy