That’s a hard
question to answer. What is bravery? Is it the little boy or girl battling
cancer or the doctors or scientists who are battling to find that elusive cure?
Or is it the soldier who takes on a machine gun nest and dies doing it, to open
up a passage for his comrades that go on to take a small mountain and help
bring a war to an end? If you can distinguish between the little boy or girl
and the doctors and scientists and that soldier. Then you might have your
answer.
For me: Elon
Musk for taking on Senator Elizabeth Warren during an epic rant with The
Babylon Bee.
He said: “She struck first. She called me a
freeloader and a grafter who doesn’t pay taxes. I’m literally paying the most
tax that any individual in history has ever paid. And, she doesn’t pay tax, basically
at all. And her salary is paid for by the taxpayer”. (check the above photo)
Mr. Musk also opined on woke culture—calling
it a “mind virus” and “arguably one of the biggest threats to modern
civilization.”
He’s brave to have taken profound business-related risks to make the world’s best EV company, the world’s best rocket
company and to use these as a fast vehicle to accelerate the
world’s transition to sustainable energy! Give that
man a cigar. Courtesy of old buck!
Another I could think of is the Prophet of Islam Muhammad.
The reason is: (1) Lost father before his
birth (2) Lost mother at an age of 6 while traveling back to home at a remote
desert town (3) Lost his grandfather who looked after him after his parents
died (4) Lost his first wife whom he loved (5) Lost his sons when they were
infants (6) Mocked by people; though this mocking is a three-word bullet point
by in fact this was more than one can imagine. You can imagine by only thinking
about what happened to him when he visited Taif where people ordered children
to stone him and it went to an extent that his shoes were filled with blood.
(7) He and his supporters were confined to a small valley and were boycotted.
Had to face the hardest of times there (8) Had to leave Makkah due to
unbearable persecution. Makkah was his hometown and leaving it wasn’t easy (9) Daughters
were divorced when he called people towards Islam.
There are many other things that I can
mention but these few are what I can name at the first instance.
Yet he came out strong. He made strong
decisions. He signed treaties with opponents of peace in exchange for terms
that were highly suffocative for him and his supporters. He fought battles,
defended his men, learned from mistakes, planned for the future, never complained, and had faith in God and the world did see that he did change the tide!!!
