100 Day CreativeChallenge: Day 35
Finding Your Brave
I never met Ruthee Elisabeth Carnegie, but her words have impacted me. Her life has spoken to me thorough the lives of several of my friends. She battled with cancer for the last couple of years yet she inspired her friends to live life with fragrance and colour and to wear their ‘brave undies’.
Her brave heart gave others courage to live a life more nobel, more abundant, more extraordinary.
We all need find our brave, whether it’s in illness, relationship breakdown, work problems, risk-taking —in fact we need our ‘brave undies’ every day don’t we?
Wear your brave undies every day. Don’t dwell in dull tones, blaze in full colour. Love from the centre. Smile at the future, live freely, sing as if your soul depends on it. Speak up for the voiceless, hug with both arms, don’t allow fear to cripple your dreams or intimidation to silence your voice. We are a vapour, fragrance the earth well. Ruthee Elisabeth Carnegie.
This 100 Day Creative Challenge is not just about art or writing or dancing or singing, it’s about designing a life that will echo throughout the world and leave a legacy and, for that, we need to be brave.
So, in honour of Ruthee, a brave woman you may or may not have met here are some ways to find your brave:
1. Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been. Alan Alda
2. Be brave enough to make sacrifices.
There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater. But sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life. That is the sort of bravery I must have now. Veronica Roth, Allegiant
3. Be brave enough to do what’s right.
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
4. Be brave enough to take risks.
“What does it mean if I’m afraid? Does it mean something bad is going to happen?”
“No, it doesn’t mean something bad is going to happen. It just means that you have the chance to be brave.”
C. JoyBell C.
Artwork by Kym Basoka https://www.instagram.com/p/BAIkr2WNuHR/
