Your 20 seconds of courage? - Page 8

On August 11 2012 14:15 xrapture wrote:
Courage = committing an action with selfish motives-- same as every other action.

On August 12 2012 12:51 Escuche wrote:
Back in my sophomore year of high school (maybe it was junior year, not sure), two of my friends and I were watching a baseball game after school. We decided we wanted some pizza, so after a quick discussion about who had money and how much, we started the 10 minute walk from the baseball field to the center of town. Just as we're leaving the campus, these four douchebags in the grade above us who were standing around a parked pickup started giving us some trouble, asking us for money or weed. I told them we didn't have any and we kept walking.

As we walked, we noticed their car go by a few more times, until finally they pulled up to where we were walking and two of them got out. These guys were huge - at least one of them played football and I'm pretty sure he was on steroids. He was clearly the leader, at least for the moment. Both my friends froze up as they were walking towards us, muttering under their breath about what we were going to do. Realizing that they couldn't, I knew I had to deal with this. I walked forward toward the huge guy leader (we'll call him Felicity) and met him halfway between the truck and my friends.

"I know you guys have something on you, either money or weed, we don't care which, but you're gonna give it to us."

I happened to have something like $40 in my pocket, and I knew my friends had two dollars between them since they'd agreed to pay me back for the pizza. I just told him, "Dude, I don't even smoke weed, and I don't have any money."

"Well what about one of them?" Felicity said, gesturing to my friends. "Hey, either of you got anything on you?"

One of my friends who was more nervous than the other started panicking and babbling incoherently. Seeing that he could be in some trouble if he showed his fear, I stepped in to take the heat off him. Making an executive decision, I figured two dollars was an acceptable sacrifice to take the heat off my friend and draw attention back to myself. "They just have like two bucks," I said. Right on cue, they pulled out the money and handed it over to Felicity, who again turned his focus to me.

"Come on man, I know you have some money on you. I don't care how much it is, just give me whatever you've got."

I happened to be wearing sunglasses, which up to this point I'd used to seem casual and unfazed, even though there was a good chance we were going to get our asses kicked. So I took off my sunglasses, looked him right in the eye, and said, "I don't have any money." I'd like to think the two Andrew Jacksons in my pocket were doing the "I'm not up to anything" whistle. I held eye contact for a full 30 seconds before Felicity was satisfied and walked back to the truck. Ass-kicking crisis averted.

On August 12 2012 14:26 MaestroSC wrote:
this thread is so full of hipsters and cool kids its amazing.

wtf

everytime someone says something someone else tries to tell them why they are not courageous acts, or how there was never any danger. Like the retarded post above mine.

This just in, not everyone runs to the cops when they get their asses kicked. And people get in fights EVERYday in high school. Since you say gay shit like "i think its silly for kids to think" so you are obviously some extremely mature douche who has never been to highschool... i doubt you have ever been in/seen a fight or been threatened, to be able to dismiss and describe a situation you were never in.

People get picked on and beat up all the time. And i went to a private religious high school (im not a bible thumper, was raised in church/private school system tho), and even then there were fights every week or so. Its not as easy as "go tell the cops" or "go tell the faculty" because the you get shit on the REST of your life at the school cause everyone knows you as the kid who got his ass kicked and then ratted.

Have you ever been in a fight in high school and tried to file charges? you know what happens? they tell you to grow up and to handle it amongst yourselves (unless its something extremely serious and a weapon was involved). Dismissing his situation as "you werent brave, there was never any danger" is just mind-boggling.


seriously who knew TL is so full of hipsters... sometimes being a part of a non mainstream group is annoying, forgot how many people like esports simply because mainstream doesnt...

PS. Loved "We Bought a Zoo" (living on a zoo would be AMAZING!)
Also loved the 20 second quote

dont really have any big 20 second courage moments... ive broken up fights but idk was never really worried or threatened by it... maybe going on a roller coaster with a girlfriend...and i dont do roller coasters (im a control freak... i have done 160 mph on the freeway with my buddy in the passenger screaming.... ive ridden ATV's my whole life etc... just not into roller coasters idk why but i fucking hate roller coasters)

On August 12 2012 15:13 starfries wrote:

it doesn't matter how much "real" danger you're in. it matter how scared you are.

real courage is not doing something that sounds "dangerous" when you know you're perfectly safe. real courage is feeling like you're fucked and doing it anyways.

for me? I'm scared of heights. I'm fucking terrified of heights. but every year, I go climbing with my friends. they scamper up cliffs like monkeys. not me. every move I make, I move my hand from one death grip to the next. I'm shaking as soon as I'm above a few meters. I know there's very little danger, but getting up there is excruciating.

so I don't care if you're standing up against a 17 year old kid. I don't care if you're standing up against Godzilla. I have just as much respect for the kid that stands up against the bully that everyone else can beat up. or the girl that's been afraid of spiders her whole life and picks up a tarantula. or the dude that asks out the girl of his dreams and gets shot down. courage is not about what you did. courage is about how hard it was to do it.

On August 11 2012 21:44 Cpt.beefy wrote:
Good question, I think the most ballsy crazy thing i ever did :if anyone cares:

I was 13-14 shy and timid, was getting bullied alot for years not physicial but emotionally. Same guys all the tim , You know Im big, your small, too young to care about feeling and too scaried of there own insecurities to see past there noses. This one guy had been digging me for ages, calling me a crybaby and the like, Eoin (a total ass). So just before PE one day we were all getting ready to play football(soccer...) and he starts throwing stuff at me and egging me on to cry.... I ignore him as best I can and BOOM! Just start shouting,
HEY! HEY! Guys! You know the only reason Eoin is here tis' mornin' is 'cos the fucking bakery is closed. Everyone laughs immediately. Eoin shuts up and start threatening me physically. I smile knowing I've just won a first battle.
Bullying gradually starts to ease up and I find my joker defense works a treat AND more importantly I gained my first pylon of confidence. It was really a moment of pure, AHHH Fuck THIS!
Madness that improved my life for the better. Even started to trade megadrive games with eoin later in school life.
Never looked back after that 3 seconds of courage.

Good question.

On August 12 2012 14:41 Dosey wrote:


I never said what he did didn't take courage. I've just seen enough bully stories in this thread and thought in this I should say something that some kids may actually take to heart. You are right, if you get in a fight and go to an authority figure, odds are nothing will be solved. However, his story implies the danger of robbery. That is much more serious than a simple schoolyard fight and adults would take it seriously. My sister was mugged by some 17 yr old kid in a parking lot and he was tried as an adult and sent to jail for two years. So I am speaking from experience in terms of potential punishment.

As for the bold, you are cute with your assumptions. And while my experiences are none of your business, I can tell you that you are way off base there kiddo.

On August 12 2012 17:17 kusto wrote:
I hate it when people are influenced by movies like that. This really pisses me off.

On August 12 2012 00:36 Xitac wrote:
my 20 seconds of courage are always when i loose against a protoss and dont tell him in the 20 secs before i leave
how fucking broken and retarded his race is and i just quit without gg

u may ask "xitac why would u not tell these braindead imbeciles how fucking stupid their race is?"

well because they are too fucking retarded to see how stupid protoss is and they wouldnt get it anyways

On August 12 2012 17:17 kusto wrote:
I hate it when people are influenced by movies like that. This really pisses me off.

On August 12 2012 08:00 Kaoriyu wrote:
First time confessing straight to someone:

When I was in high school there was this croatian girl that I suddenly started to like about 2 weeks away from graduation. I have never seen her with a boy before and even her friends tell me that she has never had a boyfriend before so either she was really picky or just really shy. However it was mutually agreed between the guys in our grade that she was one of the prettiest girls in our class.

Right after our grade 12 retreat, I went to my locker and started packing up my stuff about to go home and then my crush walks past me so I decide to walk her to her car. Me and her have a good conversation on the way there about grad/college and stuff and when we got to her car I decided that it was the time to tell her about my feelings. I've had much longer crushes on girls and idk WTF drove me to suddenly start confessing to her but in my head I'm thiking "Fuck it, im graduating soon lets do it"

Now I've never done anything even close to this before so I literally go all out and told her that I really liked her, she was beautiful/pretty, smart and had class/cultured etc. When I was finished I looked at her and her expression was completely blank and then soon after she blushed and said something along the lines of "Omg really? or wow that's the nicest thing a guy has said to me".

NOTE: I didn't even talk to this girl much in highschool at all so it was pretty much an unexpected confession from a neutral guy in her life.

We then exchange numbers and she tells me that she's going to croatia soon for summer vacation and tells me that let's get to know each other first as friends before anything and to meet up when we come back for our first semester of University as she didnt want to be comitted to a relationship as soon as she was leaving for vaction. As soon as she drove off in her car I run into the Gym and yell out to all of my friends "OMG I ASKED X OUT AND SHE'S GIVING ME A CHANCE ETC ETC ETC" so needless to say the very next day we were the talk of the school. So we get to know each other a little bit better and we're a lot more friendly towards each other now. Then I remember that grad came up.....so a week later I decide to have another 20 seconds of courage.

So literally about 5 days away from grad, I still havn't decided on a grad date yet(NOTE: my school's graduating class is only about 50 people so the pool of women to choose from is non-existant). I've always been known as a shy and non-talkative guy and I still was after I confessed to my crush. I didn't really care much about Grad so finding a grad date was the last thing on my mind until I realized that it could be a chance for me and my crush to get closer together. I knew that me and her had an english final together and after the test I wait for her while socializing with my friends and when she came out of the final it turns out that she went towards the other exit to her car.

When I found this out I'm like OHSHIT, HOW AM I GOING TO ASK HER NOW? I thought about what would happen if I didnt go after her so I went for a round 2 and literally started running towards her and yelling out her name Korean Drama style and she looks at me and her expression on her face is like a "WUT? or WTF? in a cute/laughing manner". So I asked her to be my grad date and then she tells me that she was already going with a group of friends and they already paid for the limo already so she couldnt. After she told me I was devestated on how I should of asked her sooner... until she invited me to go along with them but as the shy guy I was back then I declined since I didn't really talk to any of her friends that she was going with. So I just told her that I would meet her there.

So long story short: we have a fun time at grad, I got accepted into a more prestigous university than the one that my crush was going to and I didnt tell her. We once meet again at a party and she asks me why I didnt go to her university in a way that she was expecting me to be there and then we just went our seperate ways.

The benefit of this was that it made me more confident towards women and everyone in highschool thought that I had balls of steel.

On August 12 2012 19:23 frontliner2 wrote:
Both occured in AMsterdam.

Once a few of my friends we're in the threat of a street fight and this coked up guy grabbed a huge street tile/brick and threatend to plant it in my friends face and I tried to talk him out of it for a good 15 minutes. He seemingly walked away but turned suddenly and threw the tile (which was broken in half and sharp) in my friends face and his front teeth feel out and left a huge cut/scar in his face. Beeing so outraged we all jumped the fucker and kicked his ass and handed him over to the cops which were watching in undercover all the time.... (the irony)
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This other time I was at a cool party and a black guy asked me for a sigarette to roll up some weed. I gave it to him, nice guy he was and we chatted a little. Some white punk kid (belonging to a group of 5 or so douchebags) elbowed me in the guts to piss me off. I forced him to apologize for being such a dick (I'm 6ft7 260 pds) and that seemed to be it. This group of assholes were out to hurt people. So afterwards we came out of the party and in the street I saw a friend of me argueing/trying to stop this group of douches from kicking that same black guy's ass who was already lying in fetus position from being pounded. I jumped in immediatly and called for my not so brave friend to get my friends. I fought about 5 guys, one being my size, 3 being average and 1 being small, but he had a cane. Anyway I fought them all off and I was so enraged and filled with adrenaline that I kicked all their asses. The guy as big as me kicked me in the nuts 5 times before I really started fighting and even necklocked me from behind. I was so angry at some point I confronted him. He started showing off throwing bikes at me (wasting his stamina) and I punched him in the face. The smallest guy was tackling me with his cane all the time so at one time I quickly grabbed him and held him above my head and slammed him on the floor, picked him up again by his collar and belt and slammed him inn the wall. My 2 friends rallied to me and they defended me each time I was tackled so I managed. The other 3 enemies stood no change I outsized them dramatically and my reach in fistfighting is extremely long.

Needless to say that black guy (who wasn't big at all) was VERY thankfull (and bruised and bloodied might I add), they would have killed him or at least had him kicked in the hospital.

I spent the following month or so watching over my shoulder very often when walking the streets.

People can be so fucked up.

Two of the most messed up fight I ever been in. But in these situations I simply can't sit idle.

On August 12 2012 07:12 Savio wrote:
I basically starting swinging my skinny little arms above my head and jumping up and down screamimg incoherently "blaaugggdeaduaalde!!!" and the cow keeps charging me berserk-like. I don't back down and I keep screaming and jumping and swinging my arms and the cow turns aside at the last moment and my dad is able to push it into the trailer and close it up. I then fell down on the grass and tried to catch my breath. I've never had that much adrenaline in my body before.

On August 12 2012 08:00 Kaoriyu wrote:
First time confessing straight to someone:

When I was in high school there was this croatian girl that I suddenly started to like about 2 weeks away from graduation. I have never seen her with a boy before and even her friends tell me that she has never had a boyfriend before so either she was really picky or just really shy. However it was mutually agreed between the guys in our grade that she was one of the prettiest girls in our class.
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So long story short: we have a fun time at grad, I got accepted into a more prestigous university than the one that my crush was going to and I didnt tell her. We once meet again at a party and she asks me why I didnt go to her university in a way that she was expecting me to be there and then we just went our seperate ways.

The benefit of this was that it made me more confident towards women and everyone in highschool thought that I had balls of steel.