We want to live in a world of brave people, we want to be brave . . . and we’re afraid to talk about it because we might look foolish! The brave don’t despair. They believe. They are not cynical, they care. They think there is stuff worth dying for—that good and evil exist. They know that life has problems but would rather be part of the solution than a bystander. “Life is real! Life is earnest!” Longfellow writes in his famous psalm. But to even say that—let alone believe it—requires a kind of courage.
