To Dis or En Courage

Just a short musing.

Something happened in my personal life last week that left me feeling – as my husband aptly supplied for me – discouraged. So I was contemplating the word in the shower, and it struck me that the opposite of discourage is encourage and both of them have the root word courage, which is TOTALLY OBVIOUS RIGHT but also on the other hand, I’m not sure I’d concretely connected the ideas before.

When I’m feeling discouraged, I’m feeling dis-couraged. De-couraged. My courage...