The word “coward” has come to acquire a deeply negative connotation, so much so that it has fallen out of popular use almost entirely, and anyone attempting to use it faces significant backlash, both privately and especially publicly. And the word “brave” is being liberally used to praise victims and laud behavior that seems to lack any evidence, much less significant evidence, of the recipient actually having stood strong against a dilemma. Today there are certainly people who would call Patton a bully and the battle fatigue suffering soldiers he slapped brave, for merely being on the receiving end of his “despicable tirade.” What is Creator’s perspective on the abandonment of the word “coward” and the accompanying neutering of the word “brave,” a word that used to be reserved ONLY to describe one who displayed SIGNIFICANT evidence of having “stood strong?”

This departure from reasoned judgment and discernment is a function of unawareness, a state of ignorance in appreciating the makeup of individuals, how it comes to be, and to what extent people are victims, often repeatedly, of prior trauma revisiting them through the workings of the Law of Karma. This will bring back a challenge over and over again demanding restitution, a rebalancing of things, as an opportunity to set things right, to regain the high ground through taking effective action and finding a way to overcome roadblocks and self-limitation that is more a surrender, through fear, than lack of inner ability. Cowardliness can be considered akin to an illness. It is a sickness of the spirit, the soul attribute makeup allowing a person to stand strong despite challenges and risks they face. No one would berate a hospitalized patient for being too weak to travel, go back to work, resume their daily responsibilities, to just suck it up and be tough. It is easy to understand when the body is physically depleted of energy, and perhaps generating painful symptoms, there is little the person can do until healing restores them to a normal state of health. Someone who is emotionally fragile from a trauma history has a much greater burden than other people realize, and even that individual themselves will not fully know all that their deep subconscious mind is privy to in the horrors they have been subjected to in other lifetimes. That deep part of their mind is feeling it keenly and creating a tremendous emotional charge that can be truly disabling. So the perspective of an outsider acting as a critic and labeling someone a coward is acting in ignorance of reality, and will rarely have an accurate objective appreciation of what is taking place, what is at stake, and all the factors involved in the makeup of the individual they are so quick to judge and find wanting. Here again, we would point out the folly in expecting people to all be the same, to accept the same circumstances and treatment, and perform in the same way when compromised, challenged, or even threatened with bodily harm. This is an unrealistic expectation, at a minimum, and a willfully ignorant and limited awareness of the reality that all people are unique and different from each other to begin with.