"I Wish I Had the Courage"

**RockyR** · 22nd December 07, 03:12 PM

Originally Posted by Ugly Bear

Is it possible to force someone to have courage? Evidently, this guy is sitting there wishing that someone would break into his house and steal all his trousers, leaving behind just one kilt to get the ball rolling. However, times being what they are, chances of that happening are maybe one in seven, tops. Anyone have any ideas on how to force a guy to have the courage to wear a kilt?

Allow me to get mildly philosophic for a second...

Is it possible to FORCE someone to have courage. No. Can you "shame them" into it or "peer pressure" them into it? Yes. Courage comes from within and you can't GIVE them courage... they have to find it for themselves, within themselves.

That being said, even if you force someone to wear it / dare them to do it / etc, they will GAIN courage from wearing it and carry THAT forward to other experiences.

**rollerboy_1979** · 22nd December 07, 04:27 PM

Originally Posted by RockyR

Courage comes from within and you can't GIVE them courage... they have to find it for themselves, within themselves.

Just ask the Cowardly Lion............

Unfortunately, that fellow probably never had the courage to do much of anything. It's part of that "victim mentality" that plagues some people....he thinks that if he wore a kilt everyone would be out to get him. I think that those of us who wear the kilt have no fear. I feel sorry for him because life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving (thanks for the quote Auntie Mame). Kilts are not for cowards.
RB

**Raphael** · 22nd December 07, 04:42 PM

If buddy needs courage to wear the kilt, he is not ready yet.

**Drillagent** · 22nd December 07, 05:03 PM

I sometimes give my fellow soldiers the statistics I read about the Black Watch in World War I (The Ladies from Hell). These were all attributed to the uniform the Black Watch wore. Kilts. That usually stops the chuckles and wipes the grins off their faces.

The Black Watch
had the fewest casualties due to trench foot of all the allies
had the fewest cold weather injuries of all the allies
could march farther in one day than all the other allies
could march the fastest than all the other allies