Someone once asked me to define the word brave, for some people they would reply with "a term used to describe a person who does a dangerous thing when someone else won't". But that's not what I'd respond with, in my opinion I think society has changed the real definition without even knowing, I don't think brave stands for being the first person to bungee jump off a 50 foot bridge or eating an exotic fruit to make sure it isn't poisonous. That's not defining brave at all brave is different for example, 2 girls are getting tattoos the younger one goes first and gets her tattoo, once she's finished it's the older girls turn, but just then she says "no I've changed my mind". No matter how much she heard from the younger girl or the tattoo artist saying it hardly hurts she still refuses. Most people would look at this story and say the younger ones the brave one where truly it's the one who refused. She stood there and thought if she really wanted to have a permanent tattoo on her skin, she refused to think "if I say no they'll call me a wimp and I don't want that" no matter what she stood her ground and made the decision. She knows that she makes her decisions in life not others, in my opinion that's what's considered brave