Exhortation

Exhortation

There are some individuals who exhort, encourage, plod, push, plead,beg, bessech, implore others to take actions, but they themselves refuse to lift up even a little finger when their participation is needed.

There are two types of cowards. The silent ones live their lives of quiet desperation. The others are loud-mouthed cowards. They make a spectacle of themselves because they crave attention and thus assume it's a matter of course for humans to behave that way. Little do they know that when words are not translated into actions, the persons who have uttered those words only invite contempt from onlookers. I have nothing but contempt for loud-mouthed cowards.

Cowardice is not a very pleasant way to go through life. Cowards never experience moments of triumph when adversities are overcome, nor do they savor feelings of solidarity when accomplishments are acknowledged by appreciative populace.

Cowards may live a long time and pass on their genes, but their lives are no different from those of asses on the farm and shrubs in the desert. Nobody respects them. To be fully human is to command respect, in one way or another.