the Few

Courage is an alienated word nowadays. Aside from storybooks, rare police dramas, and the spirited recounting of war stories, I have yet to encounter this word in everyday life. Surely people know what being "courageous" means; it has fallen into misuse simply because the brave and the few have frankly gone fewer.

But there was a time when men bore stout hearts and an iron will, a time when convictions were worth dying for. This was the age of heroes, and for a few days each year we dust off the tomes of history and remember. Great deeds, noble sacrifice, incendiary passions that would spark revolutions weren't the stuff of fiction then, and they shouldn't be now. The blood of proud men courses through our veins still; we have only to live it.

And in this issue, we can make start for it. So why not head out and climb a mountain? Feast on exotic food? Tackle your fitness woes? Why not find the passion that lays dormant inside your heart?

It is the only way to live, the only way to partake of the bounty that is the world borne from the blood and tears of countless, nameless heroes.

Do it for them, for never was so much owed by so many to so few.