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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (34864)8/26/2021 6:17:56 PM
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What is being brave?

The best explanation of this that I heard was by Neil Gaiman.

He said that he was in the woods near her new home hiking and exploring with his boys (3 and 5 at the time), when they stumbled upon a hornets' nest. Neil realized what is about to happen and he asked his kids to maintain a distance and move away first slowly then fast towards home. But he stuck around and let the bees attack him so that his boys could leave undisturbed. He allowed himself to be the target and draw the fire to keep his children unharmed.

That night he took the kids in the bathtub with him and looked at their sting marks. They had 3 or 4 each. Neil had 40+. He said that he didn't think of himself as being brave when he did that. That was just something that he had to do. The brave part came the next day when he realized that his glasses had fallen down when he tried to run away. So the question was, could he go back to the woods to retrieve them, knowing what lurks out there.

That is brave. As is going to secure an airport after having been in the fields and knowing what awaits you.

And BTW, countries are neither brave or coward or generous or anything else. Those are traits that only apply to people.
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