Thank You: A Story of Bravery.
By: Yuvraj Dhepe
Tags: Bravery, Thanksgiving, Life Lessons, Superhero, Metrics

This kicked me with an Idea that I need to try this simple bit of saying Thank you, at least n progress on the journey of becoming a superhero, because even if I can’t fly right now, at the least I can say a Thank you right.

Did I wanted to try this superhero bit of politeness on a girl n see her smile, nope.(Maybe I can do it now, not back then) Originally this bit, to say thank you and see other person smile was more important for me rather than who is the person, be it a boy, a girl or anyone else. Just I knew it had to be someone special to me cause the girl was a special one for Clark i.e his Love.

Soon I made my next mission definition:

Mission: To make someone special in my life smile, by saying Thank You.

Now I have mission definition but whom shall I say Thank You was the next question to crack.

Hmmm…

After thinking for a while, my brain zapped n said obviously it has to be my father, who else, though now I don’t exactly remember what I thanked him for, but still lets continue.

Since superhero are always onto their cause, let me tell you why I wanted to say Thank You to my Pa, because he has made me realize that in this world the biggest superpower is of Love n with time you can accomplish great things, with it. Surely I have been influenced by superman, he-man n other superhero characters but a real-life example of love is my father n it’s not like he doesn’t make mistakes He does, but still he Loves as he does. Thus he deserves to be Thanked. (This is just the feel of why I thanked him for. Sure reason still I don’t remember.)

These were the moments, where I was asking myself, the very first 3 questions you read at the start of post, on a Sunday Morning. While the above questions were running in my mind, to add up a bit pressure there was this shyness bit back in my younger self, because of which when I practiced saying Thank you, butterflies took off in my stomach thinking what Mom or Pa may think..

I was busy in my practice and soon came the Action Call.

Hey Junior come, lets have a breakfast. Called in my Pa.

And Since heroes are never late, I rushed to the action zone i.e Kitchen of my home. Within no time I was served nicely with breakfast and once I was done, then came my action moment and I took the leap of faith.

Breath 3…2…1…

Thank You Papa…

Swoosh…

Soon I vanished from kitchen and was back into my study room, my heart pounding fast because of my flash run, and guess what.

Mission Accomplished. Well How: I saw the smile on my Pa’s face n he said Welcome back to me with a smile.

That day it was clear to me that superhero are really great, they can surely make people Smile, today I realize that they can also make people Love.

So exactly which quality am I talking about:

1) Is it being polite ?

2) Is it saying Thank you, and be polite ?

3) Is it love ?

Yeah all these are qualities of Superheroes, previously I used to think about the above qualities from my this childhood experience, but Thanks to Marta Brzosko who gave me a new perspective to this story of mine by hers:

The Bravest People Are Those Who Are The Most Afraid

So I am talking about: Quality of Bravery

Let me tell you how ?

Doing this small act of bravery cost me my shyness, my feeling to have butterflies in my stomach, my feeling to be away from taking action.

Also I came to know that I can be strong like Clark Kent n Make people smile. Maybe these bits are small but surely they contribute heavily to an individual. They did for me. Here my story ends.

Coming to conclusion I learnt that this bravery bit is not dependent on which task you do, how it is perceived by others, what matters the most is:

What does it cost to you ? What it means to you to do certain task ?

So according to this cost, take action, be brave n do the good bit which you have always felt to do. Ask the girl out, ask for the appraisal you wanted, act on your morning routine, do what makes your stomach butterflies fly and in the end just do it my friend.

Moral: Bravery is decided by what something costs to you and what you learn from it, not from the metrics of how others perceive it.

This was my short experience of bravery and if this relates to some of your memories, I would love to hear about that, so you can comment and let me know.

This was the story 2 from my 15 series story. Below are the completed one’s, you may go through if you liked this one.

0) Story 0: Storytelling Series Introduction.

1) Story 1: Trust Story of Belief.

As always the feedback is appreciated.