Courage

    What is courage? Everybody has a different opinion of what courage means. I believe that courage is facing your fears, overcome your dislikes, and doing the right thing even if nobody knows. I know that every single one of the people who look at this blog entry has showed courage in some point in their lives. I think courage is something that drives you forward. I think courage is something that changes your life either a little or a lot. For example, it is like telling your friend or whoever it is the truth even if it gets you into trouble. I showed courage as many times as you have, but I will only share with you one time I showed courage in this blog entry.

    It was a Friday, the sun beamed through my window. Today was the day of the student council speech. In a few hours I was going to be up in front of more than 300 people competing against 21 kids also running for student council. There were only 10 spots in the student council so it was a competition. As I got ready for school I imagined myself up on stage doing a fantastic job and getting in the student council. My heart was pounding. As I rushed for the door I shouted, “Wish me luck!” My mom answered but I could not hear her because I was already off. Hours felt like minutes. As I went over the speech for the last time, I started to see an image of getting laughed at because I failed. That thought of failing made me uncertain and made me think of quitting but it was too late for that now. We reached school, everybody got up and started to walk to their locker all looking fresh but I felt a little scared, actually very frightened but I couldn’t back down now because the speeches were going to be made in about 10 to 20 minutes. I walked to my locker and put my things away and headed to the head of student council, Mr. Greigor’s room.
   
    All 21 kids running for student council was in the theater. As time went by, more and more kids began to fill the theater. The audiences were fooling around, but the people who were running for student council were all serious looking. Then the assembly started. Mr. Greigor told the audience how it is going to work. He told them how to vote and then he laid it on to us. I was amazed at how good some of the speeches were. The speeches were very short but very good. It was no. 7’s turn. I was next. I was not going to use the microphone. As No.7 finished his speech I got up and started to walk to the stage. I looked at the audience. Wow! The audience was huge. I have never stood in front of such a large audience before, let alone spoken to one. My heart was pounding, suddenly, I felt something exploding in my stomach. I was going to be sick. I felt that I need to run away but suddenly I felt calm. Even with the pressure I started my speech. I think that this was a time when something in me brought out the courage and belief in myself. After the long assembly we finished our 5th and 7th period and went to lunch. I went straight up to the middle school office and looked at who was in. For a moment I was stunned. I could not believe my eyes. I was in! The day went by very quickly. I came home and said to my mom. “Guess what? I got in!”

    To me courage is something that drives you forward. In my opinion without courage we will not be in the place we are right now. Courage is a part of life. The rewards of courage is worth the risk.