Courage

What up Twiglets! I'm gonna be telling you all about the most courageous person I know.

No, not John Cena, not Superman, and not Morgan Freeman.

His name is Wells Fowler.

Kidding. Enjoy the blog.

To me, the most courageous person I will most likely ever know and have ever known was my grandfather. After he passed away, my family returned to Tennessee to go to his memorial service, and it was there that I realized just how courageous and humble he was. I had never really thought about that side of him when I spent time with him, but as my cousins, uncles, aunts, and everyone else that was related to him told special moments that they got to share with him, it hit me. 

When he was younger, he served many years in the Air Force during the Korean War. That alone could earn anyone's respect and could get him the title of being "courageous", but to me, there was so much more to it than just serving our country from the air. For many years after the Air Force, he struggled with alcohol and became very bitter. However, I was lucky enough to get to know him during the final 13 years of his life where he had gotten over this problem. According to my mom, he was very mean to my grandmother and could be the same way to his kids at points, but he was never this way with his grand kids. He woke up and knew that he needed to clean his life up, and if you ask me, that has got to take an immense amount of courageous to realize the changes that need to be made, and also to take responsibility for your actions and do something about it. Deep down, he was always the humble man that never talked about the many accomplishments he had done in his life, never about the people that he knew or the things he could or could not do. To sum it all up, after his passing I found a hat that he used to wear all the time that read, "Real men don't ask for directions." I thought that this perfectly summed up his humble and courageous yet stubborn attitude that I will never forget.

Stay courageous Twiglets.