Hmmm. I don’t know! I have a lot of brave moments, I think, but they’re brave in different ways so it’s hard to compare them. So, a short list of them would be coming out (more than once), moving to Japan, then leaving Japan (which was braver, in a lot of ways, I think), and breaking up with my last girlfriend when I realized she wasn’t gonna give me what I needed emotionally. But each of these were my bravest moments at the time I did them, and I think they were equally brave!
Generally, I don’t engage in drama. If someone is coming at me with drama at the ready, I react calmly and compassionately because I know acting irrationally gets me nowhere, and if someone is in the wrong, I’m not gonna get them to see my point of view by acting like an asshole, so I act respectfully and give the person a chance to change their behavior, if not their opinion. If they continue acting like a jerk, then I just disengage and wipe my hands of the situation because sometimes you have to know when to pick your battles. Even if someone is being rude to me, I’m not going to waste my time being rude back because I make a choice constantly to be a kind, loving, compassionate person, and I am a firm believer that two wrongs don’t make a right. This doesn’t mean I’m a pushover - in fact, it’s very much the opposite. I treat people kindly and expect others to as well, and if people show me they aren’t kind, then they aren’t in my life until they show me they’ve changed. Idk if this makes sense - I hope it doesn’t sound unforgiving, because I’m a very forgiving person. It’s just that I extend compassion to both others and to myself, so I have no time for people who make me or my loved ones feel bad. anyway this got off topic, sorry, I wrote you a novel 😂 (also, side note, I firmly believe that if someone is coming at me with hateful drama, they’ve got more problems than I do because even when someone irritates me, I don’t feel the need to be hurtful or mean because it doesn’t make me feel good about myself to hurt others. And so, I think, if someone is trying to hurt ME, then they must think hurting people is okay, and they must be mean to themselves, too. and that sucks. this might be a slight over-simplification, but i do believe it. when people are going out of their way to be mean or hurtful, they’ve probably got a lot of their own shit going on, so while i will definitely be honest to them and not stand for bullshit, i’m not gonna do it in an unnecessarily mean or below the belt way.)