Ego Friendly

We all remember the Cowardly Lion’s song, “If I was King of the Forest.” What that ‘fraidy-cat was saying was that he couldn’t perform his role as King of the Beasts since everything scared him. Now, while one hates to be dismissive of The Wizard of Oz, this song doesn’t begin to make the point about courage that is made in the book.

In L. Frank Baum’s classic “The Wonderful Wizard of OZ” his main point was that all of Dorothy’s compatriotsalready had what they thought they lacked; The Tin Man would often cry over his lack of feelings, the Scarecrow would say, “if I had a brain I would suggest we…” and get them out of bad situations and the Lion… Well the Lion would constantly talk about all the things that scared him but he never faltered when it came to facing them and protecting his friends.

If anything, this is the perfect definition of courage; His extreme fear made the the Lion well aware of the dangers around him, yet when he needed to act he did.

We should all be so cowardly…

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