Courage of My Convictions

A video about courage and transition.

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[Pennhill007]

Your struggle TRANSends gender.Your struggle is for us.

[transpositions]

Thank you for that.....I can only hope that is true.

[kahanakitty]

Hello Sarah! what a beautiful video. if i dare to say so, i believe courage is being scared shitless about doing something so dangerous, deadly even, about risking losing everything, even family, even love, but doing it anyway, knowing all of that, because you knew it was the right thing to do, the only way to live with yourself, even if it killed you. and you are a perfect example of courage to me.

[transpositions]

Kahana - You said all of that beautifully, and it is so true. What propels us past fear, I think, is that 'act of the heart' I refer to at the beginning - that stirring of what is innermost within us. Ultimately it is a drive to be authentic and real in a world where those values are scarce and embattled at every level. To that extent transition has always been, for me, tied to a much broader theme of Being and Becoming, and never 'simply' gender. As if, even that, could ever be simple : )

[VlogasaurusFlex]

I agree with this only to a point.

I think it takes a courageous person to walk past the fear and accomplish the task to begin with. Many don't even have that.

It's like the lesson from The Wizard of Oz.

You think you gain courage at the end. But in reality, you already had it. Otherwise you'd never have stepped up to the plate. What follows only is the relaization of what you didn't know you already posessed.

[transpositions]

I think ultimately you are correct - and in fact much of transition has been exactly like that: a revealing of what was always already there. At the same time, I still wanted to make the point that courage and fearlessness are not synonymous. That we act 'in spite of fear', not without it.

[transpositions]

Thanks.....and wishing you the best as well!

[transpositions]

And I am glad to know you Ida.

As for the ending, I have software that allowed me to copy that section from a dvd and then import it into iMovie. Might not be the most legal thing to do, so shhhhhhh....don't tell anyone : )

[transpositions]

You say the nicest things.....I am truly touched.

[transpositions]

The world can be weird like that : )

Glad it connected.

[transpositions]

Blessings in return.....Sarah