The Importance Of Bravery

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Bravery can help you to do something that is new, frightening, or dangerous. People may need bravery to speak out against injustice or persevere when a task is difficult. An event in my life that required bravery is an event that is still happening to this day. Depression first came to me when I was 13, I started to get sucked into this deep, no way escaping depression that had a huge impact in my life.

I first started to get into depression because of that I was realizing the truth about the world we live in, and about life and all the struggles that has with it. That is not like how I use to imagine, or think to when I was a little kid. I used to think that life was gonna be great, no struggles at all, but as time went by all this things
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My mom was very religious, where her religion would not allow celebrating holidays, birthdays. Growing up I would always see families happy on movies or real life, celebrating birthdays and holidays as to where I used to ask my mom why I never had a birthday before she said because we can't do that, I would always feel sad that I never had a birthday before because I would see all the kids in school whenever somebody had a birthday they would sit around that person and sing happy birthday, sense nobody would do that for me, I would do that for myself while always hiding, I would get a bunch of mirrors, put them around me in a circle so I would see a bunch of me's, and I would sing happy birthday to myself while crying. As for now I've come to realize that you don't need nobody else but yourself, this world offers nothing but cruelty and sadness, I've come to realize that nothing should affect, to not develop any friendships, because I would be betrayed or if something ended up happening to that person I would get hurt. That is when I had to be brave and separate myself from others and live to only care about myself, therefore I wouldn't get hurt. As of now having that bravery a

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