Coward

I was in counseling today…we were talking about my reactions to people and events.  How I respond to conflict.  It’s pretty well known that people either do two things with conflict.  That whole fight or flight response.  My counselor said, “David, you can either fight, or you can run away.  Now…someone who fights is…what?”

“Someone with Courage,” I said without hesitation.

“And someone who runs away?”

And honestly, for the life of me, I couldn’t come up with the word.  We sat in silence while I squirmed in my seat for 5 minutes trying to come up with the word.  Eventually he said, without telling me the word, “I find it very interesting that the word is escaping you at this moment.”

But it just didn’t come.  It was on the tip of my tongue, and I just couldn’t say it.  I literally could not form the word.

Finally, he said the word.  And then he said,

“You are one.”