What are the bravest things you have done? Celebrate your courage!

[Rockinonahigh]

I'm not shure this was brave but an act of despration..wen't to college at 55 after not picking up a book that didnt have to do with some equine relater information...I graduated to.
The most foolish thing I ever did was stand between a rageing fool of a stud hell bent on savageing a mare and her new born foal.I still to this day have no idea how he managed to get out of his stall two barns away,I met him with an ax handle between the eye's knocked him out cold.Yes other people were comeing to help but they wouldnt have got there on time about 30 seconds to late.I still to this day have bad dreams once in a while about it.

[TheMerryFairy]

I think for me, simply put following my dreams. I have endured a lot of challenges and roadblocks but I'm not giving up the goals and expectations I have set for myself.

It takes a lot of courage to embrace who you are and to stand up for what is best for you. Sometimes that means doing what you have to do without guilt. I am reconnecting with the parts of me I lost here and there and I refuse to let somebody else decide who I am and how I should do things.

[JustBeingMe]

Well, this was stupid of me because it could have killed me but I wasn't thinking of myself. When I was 18 I worked in automotive at a shop. While at work one day, a young man brought in a brand spanking new car for it's first oil change. He put it on a split rack, where the arms to lift the vehicle slide sideways under the car, he did that, and lifted it in the air. He was changing the break-in oil, first oil change for this car had less than 500 miles on it. While he was under the car and I was way across the shop, I heard a guy screaming HELP!! HELP!! I turned and scanned the shop, and saw the car falling off the rack nose diving front end first because the rack had slide out in front and inward in the back making a V formation under the car; and the kid was holding the car up trying to keep it from falling. I ran straight across the shop screaming at him to get out from under the car, let it go!! He kept holding it up and was fading fast. I actually full on tackled the kid an knocked him out of the way from under the car with all I could muster up in my strength and the power of physics in motion. The car fell right behind us as we landed on the floor up against the wall of the next stall over. The poor kid was so scared he literally was shaking in fear and shit his pants. He was sent home for the day needless to say. It took 2 cherry picker tow trucks to get the car off the rack. We had to close the doors to public but the Owner of the car saw it fall from inside the store and ran out yelling MY CAR! MY BRAND NEW CAR!! It was a woman and she was pissed to say the least. I had to go into the office with the kid and explain to management how it happened. He was fired that day. Me, I just freaked out that I was able to do something so unthinking I asked for hte rest of the day off. I got it. Nothing happened physically to us but a few cuts and scratches from sliding across the floor. Is this a true story I am telling you, YES it is. I worked for Sears automotive back then. They had to purchase a new car for the woman, and she never came back to Sears for any work, and I don't blame her. I am just lucky and must of had angels with me that day because we both could of been killed. I should have done something else, but wasn't thinking of anything but get that other kid out of the way from under that car, he was too scared to let go and none of the guys in the shop heard him until after I hit him with all my might in a forward tackle.That day, there was just too much going on in the shop for anyone to hear him with all the power tools going and machines running; but somehow I heard him that day, and I guess I am kinda glad I did, he might have died that day if the car had fallen on him. You know it's amazing what happens to human strength when faced in horrid situations. It's all the adrenalin going that makes for super human strength sometimes. You hear stories about it all the time here and there. But I've witnessed it first hand, that kid holding that car and he wasn't that big, kinda small after I think about him. It's something that's never left my mind ever. It's been here logged in my memory since I was 18 and I am now 49 turning 50 this year. I haven't really told this story much, because it still kinda haunts me.

[StrongButch]

I am a member of American Indian Movement and fought for womens rights,gay rights in the 70s and 80s and continue to do so today. I have sat in the middle of the street to stop traffic etc. I want to know once I leave here I did everything possible to make this world a better place for everyone. Where you are free to love and marry who you want,get equal pay and to return the land that is sacred to my people. Keep fighting everyone.

[Girl_On_Fire]

1. Moving out on my own at 17 even though I'd never been parented.
2. Moving to North Carolina on a whim.
3. Leaving the abusive relationship in North Carolina and coming back to my home state where I am now, at the age of 33, finally being parented.
4. Starting my own business.
5. Writing this list.

[TheMerryFairy]

Originally Posted by Girl_On_Fire

1. Moving out on my own at 17 even though I'd never been parented.
2. Moving to North Carolina on a whim.
3. Leaving the abusive relationship in North Carolina and coming back to my home state where I am now, at the age of 33, finally being parented.
4. Starting my own business.
5. Writing this list.

It seems, we have a lot in common. I moved out after highschool when it became apparent that my family wasn't supporting my choices in career or lifestyle. I spent a lot of time backpacking on my own and even though sometimes I didn't always have what I needed, they were some of the most liberating experiences of my life.

Good luck starting/continuing your business! I am hoping that this traveling barber promotion project will lead to me one day having my own shop.

I think it is certainly brave of you to share your thoughts with us so thank you!

[Dance-with-me]

Moving to where I live now when I had no friends/support system and no job here, just a strong sense that this is where I was meant to be. The jobs appeared, the support system is still light but solid.

Leaving an abusive relationship, even when it meant losing the grandchildren I'd raised.

Making the firm decision to let happiness and joy in my life and letting go of enabling.

Agreeing to meet the butch who is now, I am certain, the love of my life.

Riding on the luggage rack of a fast-moving Turkish dolmuş (a minibus that runs like a cross between taxi and a bus) on a winding mountain road. Oh, wait, that wasn't brave, that was just being a damn fool teenager.