A twist, of sorts, to ThePainNeverDies being courageous:

One thing I've noticed during the few months that I've known you, TPND, is that you seem to deal with adversity a lot more comfortably (if that's the word) than with easier and apparently more pleasant times. We've all noticed that you're a fighter; it's as if what you know best is fighting back against nasty things that happen to you, and when you don't have anything handy to fight back against, you have to stop and think what to do with yourself. I was wondering if you'd observed that too, and if anything about it might be leading you to question your courage.

I can remember lots of times in my life when I've arranged to have plenty of obligations to take care of so that among them, I never had time to think about whether there was something else that I'd rather have been doing. One thing in particular that I'd often arrange was to have promised to be somewhere on time, but to be just slightly behind in getting there so that I'd have to devote all my attention to cutting breakfast a little short, finding the fastest route to where I needed to go, fighting my way through traffic, reviewing in my head what I should do differently next time and what I should say in the event that I was late. It kept me pretty busy -- and distracted from whatever I might not like to think about. I was wondering if you ever found crises helpful for keeping you distracted in anything like the same way I did.