Probably, when it comes to fearlessness, everyone immediately starts thinking about heroic deeds and the unprecedented courage of the people who committed them. On the one hand, it is. Indeed, you need to be fearless and courageous to rush into a burning building or icy water to save human lives, or to close the machine gun embrasure with your chest and thereby protect your comrades from deadly misfortune. But that is fearlessness in battle and in a dangerous situation, where it is necessary. And there are other situations where reckless courage is not only unnecessary, but also unnatural.
How to tell fearlessness from cowardice
Every act has a certain meaning. Sometimes a person takes a bold action without thinking about the consequences when someone needs help. On the other hand, there are ridiculous incidents when a "dared man" frightened to death jumps over a two-meter fence or jumps from the ninth floor or even throws himself into fire and water so as not to be caught. He just blows his feet from retribution.
Fearlessness is selfless, selfless repayment of debt with one single reasonable goal - to save and preserve. Recklessness has nothing to do with it. And if the terrorista suicide bomber blows up hundreds of peaceful people around, sacrificing himself and shouting: “For the Motherland!”, then this is elementary cowardice and meanness that the same vile killers put into his head and soul, frightening him with reprisals against his family and sending him to death.
And this is how the fearlessness of Alexander Matrosov manifested itself, who at the age of 19, during the offensive of the Soviet troops, lay down with his body on a heavy German machine gun and died, blocking the avalanche of lead and giving the rest of our fighters the opportunity to capture the fortified point of the enemy, everyone knows student.
Fearless means fair
Fearlessness is justice and responsibility for the fate of other people. Only an objective, disinterested and bright-hearted person is able to correctly apply the law of fearlessness. Such a person is fair to everyone. And not only to their own kind, but also to animals and birds. This person does not care who needs to be rescued, and he will give all his strength even at the cost of his own life, so that the creature in trouble does not suffer. The just will fight evil to the end, defend honor, goodness and a just cause, protecting them with their fearlessness. But brave pioneers and testers show a sense of duty, patience and objectivity, plowing the waters of the oceans, making many kilometers of flights and discovering new lands. Again, fearless individuals can participate in such expeditions.
Fearlessness as noble courage
Such ideas as fearlessness and courage go hand in hand. But is it enough just to be bravedo fearless things? Are such people never afraid of anything at all? Far from it. Everyone has fear. But any not the most courageous citizen who has such a quality as nobility can become a hero. And it's not all about fear. At a time when an extreme situation arises, the “shock blow” rule begins to operate. A person in a trance is momentarily reborn from weak to strong, and his fears become not something, but specifically courage. He directs his energy to suppress the dangerous focus until it is eliminated and ceases to bring threats. After suffering a shock, the hero can return to the normal indecisive state again.
Fearlessness as a symbol of love
Love works wonders and moves mountains. Therefore, we can safely say about this state of mind that it is fearlessness. The selflessness of a person in love overshadows any common sense. He or she, for the sake of an adored object, will go to the ends of the world and begin to live in a hut in order to be near. Or they will make a real feat to achieve a positive result. There are no barriers or boundaries here. Fences with barbed wire and long distances, fulfillment of generous desires and a sea of flowers, explanations and caresses, joys and sobs. All this is natural, and if it brings success without bad consequences, then it is the very sensitive fearlessness.
What examples of fearlessness do we know
Let's give some examples of that worthy despair, when people rushed into the "pool with their heads" toresist ignorant perniciousness or conquer unattainable peaks:
- Aleksey Maresyev is a hero pilot who returned to aviation after amputation of both legs, which he lost during a face-to-face meeting with a bear in the taiga. In addition, shot down by the Nazis in that ill-fated 1942, he crawled for eighteen days to the nearest village, showing fearlessness in the face of ailments and wild beasts.
- Brumel Valery is a Soviet track and field champion who suffered a terrible motorcycle accident in 1965. A leg broken into small fragments put an end to big sport, but fearlessness and will defeated disability. In 1969, Valera returned to training and after 365 days he reached a height of 2 meters 9 centimeters.
- Children of the Great Patriotic War. Teenagers aged 13-14 fought against fascism in the rear of the Soviet Motherland. Many of them were executed in the dungeons of the Gestapo. These are the fearless Zina Portnova and Volodya Dubinin, Arkady Kamanin and Kostya Kravchuk, Valentin Kotik and Marat Kazei, and other sons of the underground.
- The Ministry of Emergency Situations and firefighters annually participate in fire fighting missions, put out thousands of hectares of flammable areas and, unfortunately, fall into the epicenters of the flame themselves.
- Rescuers on sea beaches daily help dozens of drowning vacationers, pulling them out of the paws of the abyss of water, sometimes not having time to take care of their own safety.
You can list a huge number of merits and understand that they all relate to different cases. But all episodes of fearlessness are closely connected with one goal - the desire to make the world kinder and better.
Not only the braveobey heights
Ending the story, we can summarize and summarize that fearlessness is:
- Justice.
- Honesty.
- Courage.
- Patience.
- Love.
- Courage.
- Courage.
- Despair.
But not only the brave obey the heights, but also those who, unexpectedly for others and themselves, showed heroic fearlessness at the most terrible and inopportune hour.
