Courage is as stated in The New International Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language to be “the capacity to meet danger or difficulty with firmness.” In my mind courage has always meant doing what you had to do, and dealing with it because you had to. I never had a choice in my life whether I wanted to move to a different city or not. I just would get told one day that I had about a month before I had to pack up all of my things, say goodbye to all of my friends, say goodbye to my school, and leave everything I had know for the last year or so and move to a whole different place that I didn’t know. For a young child this can be hard. I learned early on, that I was suppost to “stay strong,” as my father always said. He would tell me that I had to be courageous, and a trooper through all of this and that it would be a new adventure.

always remember the houses I lived in and the way each of them smelled different and looked different.

That’s how I looked at it, as another challenge to face.

Making new friends everywhere I went took a lot of courage too. Whenever someone has to walk up to another whom they don’t know and lay their heart out on the line, it takes a lot of courage. For me walking up to someone and asking them to “be my friend,” for lack of a better phrase, was like walking up to that cute guy in math class and asking him out on a date, or trying to get his number. It scared me more than anything in the world and I was way to shy to do it. It takes a lot of courage to stop yourself from saying, “forget it, I don’t want friends, it’s not worth it.” This was one of my most feared things to do, since I am one of those people who needs other people, but is also horribly shy. I had to learn to get outgoing, and put my heart on the line. I also learned that when you get hurt just pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and try again, because you can’t loose every time.

It’s not only the getting there part that takes courage. It takes courage to tell your friends that you have learned to love that you have to leave them. When you are a child, it is most likely in your life that you will never see that person in your life again. I learned that fact by the time we were on our fourth move. Therefore it was always very hard for me to say goodbye to people because they thought that they would still get to see me all the time, and I knew what was really going to hap

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