The bravest person
“You are the bravest person I have ever met!”
“Why?”
“Because you are a complete coward, and you do things anyway!”
I just heard this quote, and my body immediately reacted with tears. After it settled for a few minutes, a second wave came.
It is one reading — there are others — but could it be that these words come from someone who otherwise might have thought that everyone is so soft, … everything that is supposedly not courage and strength.
Not very resilient, and so on.
And then, slowly, he begins to understand that it is not wrong what he said, but that the words take on a different meaning: that courage and strength can also be something other than what we were taught.
It may feel like this, and sometimes it may even be mirrored back to you as a weakness, the way you move through life. But if you are honest and endure this seemingly unprotected state, something happens to the soul: acceptance, and perhaps eventually strength — not the superficial kind, but the grounded kind, carefully built.
If you think this further in terms of generational trauma, then we are healing the wounds of generations.
The words are quite charged and powerful, I know that. But it is the everyday small gestures and the attentiveness with which one moves through the day that slowly allow these wounds to heal.
So that feelings are not something that has to be kept behind a fence, but that there is a healthy way to deal with them, to grow through them, and to live with them.
That is really all it is — and yet it is so fundamental.
Written on February 02, 2026 at 12:20. © 2026 Whisper7. All rights reserved.