Do you dare to be bold?

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What does it mean to be bold? We can look up the literal meaning of bold in a dictionary. And we find this definition:

"Boldness is the quality of someone who acts with courage, daring, or recklessness in the face of danger, challenges, or risky situations. It can be understood as the courage to face the unknown, the audacity to challenge norms or conventions, or the boldness to take actions that require daring."

And how are we bold today? How do we show courage in the face of situations or challenges? If we look around, almost everything asks and urges us to live a life full of comforts, security, guaranteed gains, and easy victories. Life has been progressively transformed so that each person expends the minimum effort to achieve the desired result in the simplest and least costly way.

But is this result that is presented to us the true result that we should seek and pursue? Will we feel fulfilled at the end of this path, when we reach the place that someone has indicated to us as the best for us, and will we feel that we have fulfilled our true purpose in life? Or will we just go through the succession of days, carrying our bodies along little by little, without really caring about what goes on beyond the walls of our home? Or beyond the limits of our physical bodies.

We lie down every day and fall asleep... almost without ever thinking about how the day ended, how we spent the day, the conversations we had, the ideas we had in our minds, the difficulties that someone may have gone through, and even if it did not affect us directly, it left us thinking about it.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a greater intelligence and a less hard and deeper heart... A heart that can go beyond just the skin of our body. A heart that beats, but beats not only to nourish every corner of our body, but is attentive to what goes on beyond that barrier.

Power is truly given to those who dare to bend down to pick up what has fallen, not to those who put their foot on them. At the end of the day, only the ability to dare to be different really matters. No one will be here to tell the story. We all have the opportunity to do our best and to seek to make life easier for those we influence.

To waste that opportunity is, quite simply, to throw away the real opportunity to live a meaningful life.

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Original text written by me in Portuguese and translated with DeepL.com (free version)}