Courage is not a personality trait; it is a discipline.
I worked my way through college as a nurse’s aid in a spinal chord injury unit of a local Boston hospital. I had zero qualifications for the job other than being strong enough to lift a person from a bed to a wheel chair and back again.
The unit I worked in consisted of about 20 young adults, from 19 to 30 years old. Each one was a quadriplegic, meaning that he or she was paralyzed from the neck down. At best, some had very limited use of their arms, perhaps just the use of triceps or biceps, so that they could flex their arm in or out but not both.
