Your 20 seconds of courage?

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

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

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

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

On August 11 2012 14:09 Jackal__ wrote:
getting on your knee and asking the question to the love of your life?

On August 11 2012 14:23 ieatkids5 wrote:
was hanging out with a girl late at night at the university commons area. we were sitting on the couch together. both of us said we needed to "study." we had our books and notebooks on our respective laps, and she randomly asks me "are you gay" (rofl i have no idea why she would ask such a thing, don't ask) I decide, alright, she's shown the signs, all the signals are there, if i do it, what do i have to lose? a few minutes of embarassment? i lean in, wrap my left arm around her back, right arm around her head, and kiss her in the lips. she kisses back. after about 20 seconds, i said, "no, i'm not gay." and we've been going out ever since.

fuck embarrassment. fuck hesitation. just go do it. and if it doesn't work, what have you lost? a potential friendship? would that friendship have even gone well? what about all the other potential friends out there? or a few minutes of embarassment? who fucking cares? if it doesn't work out, you're never gonna see her again. it was good practice anyway.

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

On August 11 2012 14:20 TommyP wrote:


What about sacrificing your own life so someone else can live? How is that selfish?

On August 11 2012 14:46 proberecall wrote:


wow, great thread and great answer...

this would be mine as well. I'm such a screw up when it comes to relationships and treating women and I come from a sociopath background (been to psychologists, psychiatrists), until she came along and really changed my world. Before those 20 seconds, I was really scared when I had her hands held in mine... I just didn't know what to say or how to say it and just thought to myself something like "screw it, here goes nothing..." and went for it... and if you ask me how did I do it, I just don't remember a thing other than the most beautiful kiss ever.

anything else in my life has been kinda straight forward, and I have been in some real messed up situations, but I guess I can deal with pressure or other circumstances with no problem.

On August 11 2012 14:09 Jackal__ wrote:
getting on your knee and asking the question to the love of your life?

On August 11 2012 15:39 Shady Sands wrote:


That's not 20 seconds of courage, that's more like 20 seconds of insanity. Everyone makes mistakes, but marriage is the only mistake where they expect you pay for it for the rest of your life. So why do it?

On August 11 2012 15:37 Release wrote:

You could have ended up with a sexual harassment lawsuit

On August 11 2012 15:39 Shady Sands wrote:
That's not 20 seconds of courage, that's more like 20 seconds of insanity.

Everyone makes mistakes, but marriage is the only mistake where they expect you pay for it for the rest of your life.

On August 11 2012 13:45 TheRabidDeer wrote:
"sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage. Just literally 20 seconds of just embarassing bravery..."
Just some life changing experience that took serious balls to do.

On August 11 2012 17:16 AgentChaos wrote:
i decided to go bio only against zerg, i cant split T_T

On August 11 2012 16:49 stevarius wrote:


Am I the only one thinking this thread is hinting for people to go get laid?

I giggled reading the entire post like a school girl. For some, it's probably not even 20 seconds.

On August 11 2012 17:53 Random_Guy09 wrote:


Yes because your the ignorant asshole thats some issues and has to come into threads like this and troll people. Go back to your cave. Your not needing in this community if your going to post garbage in a serious thread like this




Sorry just put spoiler to not clutter my post. That kind of stuff is really tough to do sir. Especially the way you took it upon yourself to do it in that way. Takes some real mental fortitude to block out the negative thoughts and ignore all the people staring (that staring probably tore holes through you) Happy the result was positive aswell! You are someone who has the balls to take that chance and push through and not give 2 f***'s about what anyone else thought.

Should keep that memory and always think back on it when you run into a wall and think you cant do something!

On August 11 2012 17:02 Emnjay808 wrote:
Highschool Valentines Day. Some underclassman chick Ive been crushing on since forever. It was middle of recess and I had a white rose ready to give her (color white is supposed to mean "were friends, but I want something more" or some shit like that). Anyways, middle of recess I bust out my single rose, all my friends go balistic (theyre the rowdy type), it immediately catches the attention of everyone around the general area. The girl I like is half way across the school, so I start to take the long and shameful walk. Literally every foot step I took was just incredibly hard to take, I felt like I was in a alternate reality. I tried my best to ignore the stares as I walked pass groups of students, and look straight on ahead. I turn the corner, and I see her, she immediately notices me and looks shocked. There is no turning back now, each step is even harder to take, I felt like I was gonna pass out any moment now. I get closer to her, she hides behind one of her friends. I could tell that she was shocked and happy at the same time, my breathing was going insane now, my mind was going blank, I try my best to act cool. I finally reach her, she had the biggest smile on her face, I could not help but just stare at her for a couple seconds. I reach out and pass her the rose and say "Happy Valentines Day". She goes "awww" and gives me the biggest hug. I walk all the way back to my friends, feeling like a boss.

On August 11 2012 15:08 Wafflelisk wrote:
Every time I hit that find game button (.. only semi-joking )

On August 11 2012 14:20 TommyP wrote:
What about sacrificing your own life so someone else can live? How is that selfish?

On August 11 2012 20:35 divito wrote:

You wanted to do it, makes you feel good, etc... thus selfish.

On August 11 2012 20:35 divito wrote:

You wanted to do it, makes you feel good, etc... thus selfish.

On August 11 2012 20:39 rogenos wrote:


Yeah, dying really makes me feel good. Every. Single. Time.

On August 11 2012 20:46 IshinShishi wrote:

Even though I have a hard time believing that it applies to sacrificing your own life, a LOT of seemingly "selfless" acts have a pretty selfish nature, as in people do stuff wanting to feel that they are better than others, that they are special and unique, etc.

On August 11 2012 20:48 TheKefka wrote:

Some people would consider that the perfect way to go,so yea,it can be out of a selfish motive.

On August 11 2012 20:50 nihlon wrote:

I don't argue with that, but that's not really what he said either. Not every decision is made because you want it and not every decision you feel good about are selfish.


Even if someone wouldn't mind getting kill while saving someone else, how does that automatically lead to it being a selfish act? You can like something without it being a selfish act.

On August 11 2012 14:23 ieatkids5 wrote:
was hanging out with a girl late at night at the university commons area. we were sitting on the couch together. both of us said we needed to "study." we had our books and notebooks on our respective laps, and she randomly asks me "are you gay" (rofl i have no idea why she would ask such a thing, don't ask) I decide, alright, she's shown the signs, all the signals are there, if i do it, what do i have to lose? a few minutes of embarassment? i lean in, wrap my left arm around her back, right arm around her head, and kiss her in the lips. she kisses back. after about 20 seconds, i said, "no, i'm not gay." and we've been going out ever since.

fuck embarrassment. fuck hesitation. just go do it. and if it doesn't work, what have you lost? a potential friendship? would that friendship have even gone well? what about all the other potential friends out there? or a few minutes of embarassment? who fucking cares? if it doesn't work out, you're never gonna see her again. it was good practice anyway.

On August 11 2012 20:21 SKDN wrote:
Masturbating in the car when parents went into the store

On August 11 2012 18:44 AlphaWhale wrote:
Go to school. Have a geography test. Haven't studied. Answer each question like it's a cheesy sex novel knowing it will be read to the entire class either by me or the teacher (which it was).

Schools like to make you feel like shit when you're unable to do the work (dropped down the lowest maths level because I kept forgetting my calculator at home) so I flipped that shit on it's head. tl;dr I did something goofy and now everyone has a happy memory of that time in high school.

Other seconds of courage usually involve climbing shit.

That being said none if this is actually the "heroic" kind of courage like saving people from dying. Honestly I just don't surround myself with enough people facing near death to have such an opportunity.

On August 11 2012 13:45 TheRabidDeer wrote:
I just finished watching We Bought a Zoo (pretty good movie to be honest) and this is one of the phrases that stuck with me (and likely many other people). In the movie, he says "sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage. Just literally 20 seconds of just embarassing bravery, and I promise you something great will come of it", and I was wondering if anybody has had these 20 seconds of courage in real life. Just some life changing experience that took serious balls to do.

If you have, share it. If you havent, do you think it has any merit? Hell, even if you kind of have, do you think it has any merit?

Personally, I am a wuss and haven't. However, upon hearing it I think that maybe I should try and apply it to my life.

On August 11 2012 21:04 Erasme wrote:

Asking a girl out. God never been so afraid in my life :p

On August 11 2012 21:05 Tom Cruise wrote:


well, you could technically say that asking a girl out is selfish because we all know what we really want, guys.
+ Show Spoiler +

On August 11 2012 21:00 IshinShishi wrote:

I think it has to do with the motive for the act, if consciously or sub-consciously you see something to gain from the act then it is an inherently selfish act.

On August 11 2012 20:48 TheKefka wrote:

Some people would consider that the perfect way to go,so yea,it can be out of a selfish motive.
The only real courageous deed you could perform that is 100% unselfish is something that is decided and done in a literal split second,something which your instincts and reflexes make you do,like pushing someone that is about to get hit by a car or whatever.You don't actually think about if you are putting yourself in danger,you don't think about the consequences of your act,whether you will get rewarded or not,you just do it.

On August 11 2012 21:09 xrapture wrote:


It's still something you've been preconditioned to do your entire life through introspection, media, and society.

If you didn't perform this act you know you would feel guilty. You may fear ridicule or scorn. You may have always wanted to die this way or save someone this way.

If a gun was held to your head and you were forced to choose between yourself and your dearest family member, I'm sure most people would choose death, but it would be for the same reasons as mentioned above.

On August 11 2012 21:19 Holy_AT wrote:


He said courage not moment of stupidity ....

On August 11 2012 14:16 TommyP wrote:
Yeah. One time my friends and I were driving around town (the worst side of town) when we were a couple years younger. I had a squirt gun in the back of my car. My friend grabbed it and unloaded a whole clip of water into an african american male of probably 25 years of age in a completely ghetto car just chilling on the side of the road with his window down at 3 am in the morning. Im 99% sure he was a crack dealer because what else are you doing then and there? So he started his car and started following us and then eventually my dumbass friend said turn in here and of course it was a dead end. So we were trapped and he came driving down the dead end and tried to block us in but i pulled the greatest juke maneuver ive ever seen and we escaped without getting hit or shot. I am a wussy too, I dont ever do anything dangerous so this is why it surprised me that I didnt just park the car or stop thinking.

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

On August 11 2012 15:08 Wafflelisk wrote:
Every time I hit that find game button (.. only semi-joking )

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

On August 11 2012 21:02 Dosey wrote:

Sounds more like cowardice than courage to me.
You didn't know the answers and couldn't stand being made to look like an idiot publicly so you purposely made fool answers to get a cheap laugh out of everyone. Definitely not courage -_-

“But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

On August 11 2012 14:09 Jackal__ wrote:
getting on your knee and asking the question to the love of your life?

On August 11 2012 22:52 reincremate wrote:

This doesn't really sound like something that should require courage but rather confidence that there will be a mutual agreement based on years of mutual understanding and love.

On August 11 2012 20:35 divito wrote:

You wanted to do it, makes you feel good, etc... thus selfish.

On August 11 2012 23:13 Kich wrote:


I had this conversation with someone that I went to college with, he thought that no action could ever not be selfish because you don't do anything that doesn't benefit you. The problem with this line of thought is it's attempting to diminish the actual act, but it doesn't. While subconsciously holding the door for someone may make me feel good, it's still something that I don't have to do to make someone else's day better.

When virtually all things you do are selfish, the word Selfish no longer has real meaning because it's a default quality of all things and is simultaneously unquantifiable.

So we then have to redefine the word Selfish in regards to actions, which to most people who haven't taken "that course in your freshman year of college that told you that and it stuck with you because you didn't really think about it" is the following:

An action that benefits explicitly yourself, no one else, and generally at the benefit of others.

Every action I do requires muscles but you don't see me telling people that shaking their hand is a "work out". You have to acknowledge that yeah, I guess objectively at some level everything you do is selfish because you wouldn't do anything that doesn't make you feel good or benefit you on some level (be it emotional or worldly), but you also have to recognize then that if selfishness is a default quality of all actions then an action can be simultaneously altruistic and selfish.

It's entirely possible to do something that is completely selfless and still feel good about it. Which essentially nukes that line of thinking.

On August 11 2012 14:16 TommyP wrote:
Yeah. One time my friends and I were driving around town (the worst side of town) when we were a couple years younger. I had a squirt gun in the back of my car. My friend grabbed it and unloaded a whole clip of water into an african american male of probably 25 years of age in a completely ghetto car just chilling on the side of the road with his window down at 3 am in the morning. Im 99% sure he was a crack dealer because what else are you doing then and there? So he started his car and started following us and then eventually my dumbass friend said turn in here and of course it was a dead end. So we were trapped and he came driving down the dead end and tried to block us in but i pulled the greatest juke maneuver ive ever seen and we escaped without getting hit or shot. I am a wussy too, I dont ever do anything dangerous so this is why it surprised me that I didnt just park the car or stop thinking.

On August 11 2012 23:40 GhostOwl wrote:


Awesome...can you go into more detail into the juke manuveur? Was it something you did with the car?

On August 12 2012 00:19 nebffa wrote:


LMFAO bolded part so good.

I had a moment of 20 seconds of courage a few weeks ago:

I'm going to see The Dark Knight Rises on my own cause none of my friends are free and I don't want to get ruined by spoilers. It's in the daytime and I go to a restaurant beforehand cause I don't want to see what is going to be the freaking BEST MOVIE EVER for me by being hungry (the Pancake Parlour... pancakes so delicious) and the waitress serving me has a great smile and was easy to talk to. I joke with her the few times she comes over, and I start to think... hang on, she actually is good looking with a great smile and is easy to talk to... should I ask her out?

I think about it a little as I'm eating my pancakes and then I have to go because the movie starts in 5 minutes... ok... what am I going to do? Do I have the courage? What do I say? ... ok instead of getting all messed up I'm just going to go up and pay and not force anything... just talk a little and if it's right it's right... so I go up and as I pay we talk a little and I think... yep just go for it, and I say "I wouldn't normally ask this, but.. are you single?"

She isn't

but she says she's flattered with that great smile. So I walk away but I feel great cause that's the first time I've asked a girl out from a store/restaurant

On August 12 2012 00:41 Kich wrote:
Hell yeah Dad-Instinct. Tell me you wrecked that dog's day.

On August 12 2012 00:19 nebffa wrote:


LMFAO bolded part so good.

I had a moment of 20 seconds of courage a few weeks ago:

I'm going to see The Dark Knight Rises on my own cause none of my friends are free and I don't want to get ruined by spoilers. It's in the daytime and I go to a restaurant beforehand cause I don't want to see what is going to be the freaking BEST MOVIE EVER for me by being hungry (the Pancake Parlour... pancakes so delicious) and the waitress serving me has a great smile and was easy to talk to. I joke with her the few times she comes over, and I start to think... hang on, she actually is good looking with a great smile and is easy to talk to... should I ask her out?

I think about it a little as I'm eating my pancakes and then I have to go because the movie starts in 5 minutes... ok... what am I going to do? Do I have the courage? What do I say? ... ok instead of getting all messed up I'm just going to go up and pay and not force anything... just talk a little and if it's right it's right... so I go up and as I pay we talk a little and I think... yep just go for it, and I say "I wouldn't normally ask this, but.. are you single?"

She isn't

but she says she's flattered with that great smile. So I walk away but I feel great cause that's the first time I've asked a girl out from a store/restaurant

On August 12 2012 00:50 iNerrant wrote:
2 Deployments to Iraq as an Infantryman in the U.S. Army.

On August 12 2012 01:07 Dosey wrote:

That's why you never ask if they are single. You just ask for their number. 9 times out of 10, even if they have a boyfriend you can usually get a number if you go about it right. Once you got the number, you are in the door.

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

On August 12 2012 01:19 Firebolt145 wrote:

Yeaaaah to me that's a bit of a dickish strategy, even if it might work better. I prefer a girl that would be honest from the get go.

On August 12 2012 01:24 Dosey wrote:


She's a waitress for crying out loud. You aren't looking to wife the girl up, you're just looking for a good time.

On August 12 2012 01:28 StyLeD wrote:


It depends on the person mate. Some people aren't the "looking for a good time" type. Waitresses aren't all party girls looking for a fling (a majority are though).

On August 12 2012 00:19 nebffa wrote:nd the waitress serving me has a great smile and was easy to talk to. I joke with her the few times she comes over, and I start to think... hang on, she actually is good looking with a great smile and is easy to talk to... should I ask her out?

I think about it a little as I'm eating my pancakes and then I have to go because the movie starts in 5 minutes... ok... what am I going to do? Do I have the courage? What do I say? ... ok instead of getting all messed up I'm just going to go up and pay and not force anything... just talk a little and if it's right it's right... so I go up and as I pay we talk a little and I think... yep just go for it, and I say "I wouldn't normally ask this, but.. are you single?"

She isn't

but she says she's flattered with that great smile. So I walk away but I feel great cause that's the first time I've asked a girl out from a store/restaurant

“So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

On August 12 2012 03:37 D10 wrote:
Theres a great quote from Dr Frankl about this.



I always remember this line when im hesitant with girls.

Better to regret what you have done wrong, than to regret never having the guts to try it

Love is a gamble always, but waiting won't change the dice. Either you roll them or you lose your turn

On August 12 2012 01:21 See.Blue wrote:


Thats so deep bro. Very counterculture and hip.

On August 12 2012 00:38 SuperYo1000 wrote:
Jumping in front of a German Shepard Dog that was out to bite my 9 year old daughter and getting my arm bitten

On August 11 2012 15:08 G3CKO wrote:
Squeezing my glutes, tensing my hamstring, and pushing my quads to finish up the last 2 reps for squats

On August 12 2012 07:22 Najda wrote:


Nothing beats the joy of a hard earned victory Gotta love it.

On August 11 2012 20:58 Cpt.beefy wrote:



That story screams, repressed gayness.

On August 11 2012 15:08 TheRabidDeer wrote:

Courage = overcoming something that is difficult for you. It could be something as small as facing a simple fear or admitting the truth in a mistake or asking the person of your dreams out on a date. Or one of the biggest things of your life, asking said girl to marry you.

And there is nothing wrong with selfish actions. If you live life to be selfless, that in itself could be considered selfish. You are just as important as anybody else in this world.

On August 12 2012 01:19 Firebolt145 wrote:

Yeaaaah to me that's a bit of a dickish strategy, even if it might work better. I prefer a girl that would be honest from the get go.

On August 12 2012 01:28 StyLeD wrote:


It depends on the person mate. Some people aren't the "looking for a good time" type. Waitresses aren't all party girls looking for a fling (a majority are though).

On August 12 2012 01:44 Wyk wrote:

Dude stop teasing.
We know australian chicks are the hottest.

On August 11 2012 14:52 Exogenesis93 wrote:
Slender...

User was temp banned for this post.

On August 12 2012 10:43 sc4k wrote:
Yeah I have a question, is it courage if a rapist abducts a child and abuses them repeatedly before killing them and dumping the body off a freeway? They act in the face of fear (of being arrested and sent to jail). If you judge irrespective of motive, I guess you can say they have been courageous even though most people associate the word courage with virtue...

On August 12 2012 10:43 sc4k wrote:
Yeah I have a question, is it courage if a rapist abducts a child and abuses them repeatedly before killing them and dumping the body off a freeway? They act in the face of fear (of being arrested and sent to jail). If you judge irrespective of motive, I guess you can say they have been courageous even though most people associate the word courage with virtue...

On August 12 2012 00:35 StorkHwaiting wrote:
My 20 seconds of courage:

I was out with friends eating chicken wings at hooters while waiting for our dates to show up to watch a movie. This was sometime during 10th grade. A guy who also went to our school, but we didn't like, came in with two of his buddies and sat at a table halfway across the room from us. For the next 20 min, my friends and them went back and forth insulting each other. Once we got outside, the trash talking got more heated and there was noise about a fist fight. But then the girls came so we told them to fuck off and went to the movies. After we got back out the movies, the guy and his friends were still hanging around (this was like an open air mall/theater complex) and talking trash.

I had about enough by this point, so we sent the girls home and went after them. They ran away though. Later, when the majority of my friends went home (there were about nine of us in total) it was only me and 1 other guy left. Those three guys started to talk a lot of shit thinking they had more numbers etc and began to flick me off from inside FAO Schwartz (there was a big glass wall/door to the entrance of the candy shop).

I was in a bad mood because they'd been going on with this all night, so I got up and went into the toy store. First rack I passed had baseball bats for sale. I picked one up, stormed into the candy shop where they were, and in front of a bunch of little kids and their mothers, I beat the three of them down with the baseball bat. Then security came so I tried to run, but they had all the entrances blocked off. I knew it would be really bad if I got caught, so I had my 20 seconds of courage. Or more like five. I threw the bat at one of the guards, and tried to barrel through the other guard out the entrance.

My body struck the glass door so hard the whole entrance shook with a bong sound. I realized the guards had straight up locked the doors. That was when they tasered me. When I came to, I was handcuffed in an office somewhere, and they were writing up a trespassing warrant. So, yeah, I couldn't take my girl to that mall for 3 years. Which is OK because we broke up a few weeks later coz she was a stupid ass devout Christian who went to bible study every sunday and was super stiff and miserable all the time trying to lecture me on how to behave and focus on my studies. She later married a Spanish baseball player who's super religious and freaky too. She is in great shape because she's a personal trainer, but even from facebook pictures I can still see the flames of fanaticism burning in her eyes. She would have been a horrible mother to my as-yet nonexistent children.

Courage is invaluable.

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)
.
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.
[...]
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)
.
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 22:33 Zoesan wrote:
Not even what bothers me.

I've been punched in the face hard (my cheek split open, had to get stitches) and that's not something you just shrug off.
Getting kicked in the balls (and 5 times no less) and then still doing something... strongly smells of bullshit.

On August 11 2012 14:20 TommyP wrote:


What about sacrificing your own life so someone else can live? How is that selfish?

On August 13 2012 00:09 Sylverin wrote:

Knowing that the person would respect you for the rest of your life gaining the respect of your peers insurance claims for family members to name a few

On August 12 2012 23:04 levelping wrote:
My 20 seconds of courage was when I had to break up with this girl. She was great, fun and we really clicked. The problem was that she was my sisters best friend. And she has had some really bad experiences with guys that just treated her like crap. While I really enjoyed her company (and the sex) I knew that my sister was unhappy about it and so continuing the relationship would just make my sister and this girl lose a friendship that had lasted since they were 4.

It would have been the easiest thing to just let things "take their course" and enjoy the company and sex until the whole thing blew up, screwing over the girl and my sister. So I dug deep and met up with her and just told her we could not see each other in that way anymore. I told her my reasons, and that I wanted to do the right thing . I was sad, but she really appreciated it and we are still friends today.

Its a small story, and it's ultimately about me doing the right thing. Bt well (and to all the people saying courage is selfish/merely doing the righ thing) sometimes doing the right thing really needs a bit of courage.

On August 12 2012 21:23 M4nkind wrote:



Awww, respect for you, this thread is so full of pussies that think their highest life achievements is making themselves talk to women. I wish there were more people like you that don't stand idle and watch.

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

On August 12 2012 23:59 PlaGuE_R wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1z-hdqEewI

this really made me choke up. A lot. The fact that it was a real man's life that got saved and not fiction, like the rescue me clip from earlier, really makes it amazing.

If i could save someone like that, it'd be worth it

On August 13 2012 01:13 Psychonian wrote:
I'm in 8th grade but I agree with the first post that proposing to your girlfriend is probably the craziest and at the same time best 20 seconds you will ever experience. I have been in love before and really it's a beautiful thing..my 20 seconds was when I was in love with a girl back in 6th grade and I finally told her after 6 months. Worked out for several months until the middle of 7th grade, and we're still close friends today.

There was also a time back in 4th grade when I was getting bullied all the time, all year, and in about the middle of March when the kids were bouncing a ball off my face I decided I'd finally had enough and ran over and kicked the leader's ass. Needless to say, it stopped after that.

For the record I also got in huge trouble for kicking the guy's ass but it was worth it, I had considered killing myself several times that year.

On August 13 2012 00:11 OneOther wrote:

Your sister didn't want you dating her best friend? I don't get it. Why would she put you in a situation like that? Couldn't she trust you to treat her respectfully? I guess I'm just curious why your sister would be so upset.

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

On August 12 2012 22:00 Capped wrote:


That second story smells so much of bullshit :| sorry if its true man but the way you wrote that is just odd. "my 2 friends rallied to me and they defended me each time i was tackled" "i quickly grabbed him and held him above my head" "the other 3 enemies stood no chance"

Who talks like this O.o also lifting someone above your head while 4 other dudes are around seems pretty hard.

On August 11 2012 19:06 ckei wrote:
I think im having my 20 secs of courage rigth now. Im asking a girl out for tonigth :D

On August 13 2012 01:57 levelping wrote:


Yeah she did not. She found it very uncomfortable. And to spin what you have said around, why would I put my sister in scha position? Her friendship has been longer and she is my sister so I felt the right to do was what I did... That way no one is put into positions that are uncomfortable in.

On August 13 2012 02:31 Absurd Bunny wrote:
I don't really know if this is a 20 seconds of COURAGE, but it was a pretty weird split second situation, that was life or death for me.
When I was four, I really loved to scooter with my dad, (he would ride a bike) and we went to the school that's near our house (thats not where I went to school, doesn't have to do with the story though) and I was afraid of crossing the street. I would never do it, unless my dad was taking me, and he wanted me to do it by myself.
I kept not doing it, because it gave me a heart attack, but finally my dad was done and made me do it.
So my house is across the street, with my dad there, and I'm alone, on the other side, scared, wanting him to take me back more than ever, but he wouldn't budge. So finally, I'm getting ready to do it, and there's a huge truck, like an old f-150, going, and my dad keeps telling me to cross, and then when he sees the truck, he's like "DON'T CROSS, DON'T CROSS", but since my little 4 year old brain can't keep up that fast yet, I'm crossing the street, and the f-150 doesn't see me, and it doesn't hesitate or stop for one second. Instantly, instead of staying there or trying to go back, the time that I move and pass the truck, I find out the truck hits part of my foot, or skims it, and I make it not hurt. I cried for like the next 5 days.


If I saw that guy again, I would hit him in the face, he didn't even notice or see me, or stop after that happened. :/

On August 13 2012 01:13 Psychonian wrote:
I'm in 8th grade but I agree with the first post that proposing to your girlfriend is probably the craziest and at the same time best 20 seconds you will ever experience. I have been in love before and really it's a beautiful thing..my 20 seconds was when I was in love with a girl back in 6th grade and I finally told her after 6 months. Worked out for several months until the middle of 7th grade, and we're still close friends today.

There was also a time back in 4th grade when I was getting bullied all the time, all year, and in about the middle of March when the kids were bouncing a ball off my face I decided I'd finally had enough and ran over and kicked the leader's ass. Needless to say, it stopped after that.

For the record I also got in huge trouble for kicking the guy's ass but it was worth it, I had considered killing myself several times that year.

On August 12 2012 21:47 Kukaracha wrote:


But you didn't get the girl. :p

On August 13 2012 18:23 rogenos wrote:
I haven't really done anything courageous but this is my favorite thread of all time. Thank you guys.

On August 13 2012 01:34 Endymion wrote:
my whole family moved from the US to saudi arabia because our company got a huge oil contract.. however, after we got there everyone was mad about us drinking so much water, and eventually another oil company came in and took us out... they killed my dad and threw my mom and i into the desert!! eventually we met up with some muslims in the sands of saudi arabia and they took us in and started calling me "mouse" or something like that, i got pretty offended. oh yeah then i started having lucid dreams about this hot bitch and the ocean. anyways so we chilled with these religious nuts for a while and then they told me my mom was pregnant, although she had just drunk a lot of alcohol so my little sister got reallyyyy messed up. then the muslims made me ride some giant phallic animal, and i kept telling everyone that the sleeper had awakened whenever i woke up from sleeping.. eventually we attacked the rival oil company with these giant worms and it turns out that obama was helping them so i attacked him too.. now i'm emperor, hows that 20 seconds of courage

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)
.
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 19 2012 21:02 kafkaesque wrote:

Around 25 guys circled me, so I made some noises and took off my shirt.

On August 19 2012 21:02 kafkaesque wrote:


Similar thing happened to me.

I lived in a small rural village in Japanese-occupied China, where this gang of Japanese punks always made trouble.
Their gangleader led a Kung-Fu dojo and - sparing you boring details - we had a history.

One day, I went to his dojo to confront him. Observing the dojo, an elderly man with glasses sat next to a group of Japanese black belts who were training. The old man noticed me, we had a little chat, and I challenged every Jap in the joint. The first blackbelt stood up and threatened me, so I suggested it would be more prudent, if they all fought me at once.
Not heeding me, he decided to take me on solo, which didn't avail him anything but a broken rib.

After I had taken down the second one, he commanded the rest of the dojo to surround me.

Around 25 guys circled me, so I made some noises and took off my shirt.
When they charged me, I dished out some kicks, each of which cut down a blackbelt at once.
Their blows didn't land home, so I felt comfortable kicking asses of 25 guys, until one of those assholes kicked me in the back.

Deciding to bring on the hurt, I took out nunchucks and from then on, each blow sent them down for good, until only their foremen remained. I made them eat paper, vowing it would be glass the next time and went home with fists of fury.

On August 11 2012 14:20 sam!zdat wrote:


you've been reading that ayn rand again haven't you

tsk

On August 19 2012 23:32 frontliner2 wrote:


I feel like you're trolling me 1vs25 = impossible, no matter how strong/trained you are.

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

On August 19 2012 23:57 GGTeMpLaR wrote:


Psychological egoism is neither testable nor falsifiable; it's pretty pointless to discuss whether it's true or not.

On August 13 2012 13:10 MaestroSC wrote:


nothing past the first bold was worth reading. but the 2nd bold is where you are already wrong.

you have not been in love...ever.

Come back in 10 years and chances are you have never been in love still.

not sure if trolling or just 13... >.>

On August 20 2012 00:47 Imperium11 wrote:



The dozens of psychological experiments on that subject would beg to differ.

On August 11 2012 14:23 ieatkids5 wrote:
was hanging out with a girl late at night at the university commons area. we were sitting on the couch together. both of us said we needed to "study." we had our books and notebooks on our respective laps, and she randomly asks me "are you gay" (rofl i have no idea why she would ask such a thing, don't ask) I decide, alright, she's shown the signs, all the signals are there, if i do it, what do i have to lose? a few minutes of embarassment? i lean in, wrap my left arm around her back, right arm around her head, and kiss her in the lips. she kisses back. after about 20 seconds, i said, "no, i'm not gay." and we've been going out ever since.

fuck embarrassment. fuck hesitation. just go do it. and if it doesn't work, what have you lost? a potential friendship? would that friendship have even gone well? what about all the other potential friends out there? or a few minutes of embarassment? who fucking cares? if it doesn't work out, you're never gonna see her again. it was good practice anyway.