Courage is a skill, not a character trait.

I don't think some people are born courageous while others are not. Courage is something a person learns - slowly, deliberately, and intentionally.

The most meaningful decisions tend to be made in uncertainty. There is rarely a perfect sign, a guaranteed outcome, or a version of the future that arrives without risk attached to it. Courage asks you to jump anyway.

Courage asks you to learn how to exist within uncertainty without letting it consume you. To stop viewing the unknown as something terrifying, and instead see it as a space where a new version of yourself can emerge.

That is the hardest part - understanding that growth feels indistinguishable from instability while you are living through it.

Having courage does not mean having complete confidence. It does not mean being untouched by doubt. It means choosing to move forward, step by step, despite the lack of certainty.

It means believing that you are capable of rebuilding yourself, no matter what happens, and trusting that even unfamiliar seasons have something to teach you.

Courage is not fearlessness, but rather the intentional decision to keep stepping forward no matter how terrifying it feels.