This guy should be a role model for following your dreams.
...now, please don't go fight terrorists with just a melee weapon, but don't be afraid to do what you feel is right
What is courage? Is it living and acting without fear?
No. Fearlessness isn't courage, it's insanity.
The true mark of courage is being able to act in the face of fear, to act despite it, in spite of it and to rise up against it. To refuse to let fear be your master and to rise above it and master it instead.
When the devil sneaks up behind you and whispers in your ear, "You are not strong enough to weather the storm." You turn around and grab that bastard by the throat and tell him with a trembling hand and widened eyes,
"That is where you are wrong you bastard, I am the storm."
...now, please don't go fight terrorists with just a melee weapon, but don't be afraid to do what you feel is right
No. Fearlessness isn't courage, it's insanity.
The true mark of courage is being able to act in the face of fear, to act despite it, in spite of it and to rise up against it. To refuse to let fear be your master and to rise above it and master it instead.
When the devil sneaks up behind you and whispers in your ear, "You are not strong enough to weather the storm." You turn around and grab that bastard by the throat and tell him with a trembling hand and widened eyes,
"That is where you are wrong you bastard, I am the storm."
THAT is courage.