To those with ears still reluctant to shun.
There is no safe place beyond your arms'-reach.
There are only safe people; and even then, rare and few.
You will remember more conflict, pain, misery, and doubt in your life than harmony, pleasure, joy, and assurance.
Courage is the act of standing amidst adversity, looking it in the face, and saying "I do not like you. I do not like what you say. I do not like what you believe. But, I accept your freedoms and acknowledge they are equal to mine."
The non-courageous find false and tentative serenity away. The courageous, and their disdain, remain; in a way, the community grows stronger for it, and definitely not in the way that those aspirited deem fit.
The grim prophecy fulfils itself, with no one there to bolster the voice that seemed to care; and they look back, scoffing at the voice for not having courage of its own without them.
Then forgotten, or the heart stemmed.
The paradigm shifts.
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