Bravery Looks Like This [Video]

If I could bottle your fears, I would. I’d seal them tightly, then throw them in the ocean, where they’d float next to mine.

We’d stand together on the shore and wave goodbye to things he said, and the worries she expressed, and the doubt they whispered behind our backs.

We’d stop thinking of all the reasons it wouldn’t work and, instead, choose to focus on the one reason it might.

We’d promise to look at every misstep as a lesson, not a failure. We’d give ourselves grace.

We’d take deep breaths, inhaling the salty air, and promise never to return to this particular edge of the ocean.

“We’re leaving it all here,” we’d say to each other. Then we’d walk away, toward the direction of our dreams.

Tell me, friend, what fear would you bottle up and toss? The ocean is waiting.