When you find the courage, you walk out your front door and realize darkness is not a permanent state, but the absence

of light.

And you have within your soul fire sufficient to set the world ablaze.

You don't make what you need, you are what you need.

A piece of the infinite, descendant of stars, proof of the impossible.

When you find the courage, you alter the very story being etched into the sands of time, an undertaking

that makes one's knees shake and hands tremble, a decision that costs the ability to avoid

discomfort. When you find the courage, living is at the expense of that which must now die. And to turn the door

handle in front of you means closing the one from which you came. Courage is deciding that

watching life through a window is no longer sufficient.

That what you have is not a product of the way things should be,

but how you've allowed them to unfold.

See, a choice is not a thing, a choice is an action.

A deliberate decision to see life differently.

To see your circumstances differently. to see your outcomes differently,

to see your trials and tribulations differently.

What you don't know is a gift,

willing to reveal itself and lift you up

should you find the courage.

This world has seen empires rise and fall.

It's brought in the new, cleansed itself of the old,

and chapter by chapter the present becomes the past,

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