Courage and the Brain

Still can remember the time when we were kids.
Jumping down from second floor in an attempt to escape during catching, climbing trees, playing pranks on people.
Now, even if you just ask me to jump down a flight of stairs, i am scared.
Is it true that as when grows up, his courage diminishes? The once fearless kid become a whimpering man?
How ironical, yet so true.

A kid, with the purest of minds, also has no sense of danger. He has no qualms about doing maybe the most arduous things on earth. The things he can do is boundless, not shackled by the imposing mind.

An adult, though physically suited to handle more perilous situations, is surprisingly cowardly. He has too much to hold on to, too much things he is scared to lose, so much so that he fears death a lot. HIs mind is thinking, thinking so much that it shrinks the guts.

His mind tells him that if he just jump from the second floor onto concrete floor, he will have a broken leg. Alas, he forgot that he once achieved the same feat as a child. Y cant he achieve the same now? Sadly, only negative hypothesis and maybe negative examples fill his mind. He wrongly link 'jumping down from second floor' to 'breaking leg', yet, he is glad to take it as the truth. His enquiring mind tells him that it will be stupid and not wise to jump; the mind is the greates barrier to purest courage.

Ever wondered y sprains are recurrent, ligaments and other muscle injury are so prone to relapses? I henceforth propose a bold hypothesis - it is due to the lack of courage. With a bitter injury still fresh in our mind, even though our body is completely healed, the mind is not. One will be hesistant to use his injured limp to walk. He is scared to have the same injury. But his lack of confidence will cause his leg to weaken and give way - it is a long proven fact that ligaments are directly linked to the mind.

The mind generates fear; the mind hinders courage. It is not surprising then, that animals are often considered more brave than the weak human soul.