First step and Gandhi

There are things you plan that you want to accomplish, and that plan stays on with you, you postpone and postpone until you forget about it, be it simple everyday chores or your future life decisions. Some times the consequences of putting your decisions may not be too favouritable, but they may be just. Things which your conscience deems right but power may think wrong are the most difficult to begin. In such circumstances the first step towards doing those actions determines the strength of courage a man possess. Being able to see the danger to blissful calm that might be brought about on oneself as a result of ones action and yet being able to take that first step is when fear is overtaken by courage. clearly this posting is inspired by someone whose first step was crucial enough not only to his fate but to the fate of the nation. A person whose thinking was as pure an as simple to be understood by millions of uneducated rural masses, but yet as complicated to untwirl the British laws making indians more rural then it was. So there I ask what was the first step he took and above that what drove him enough courage to take that first step.
Everyday of our life we make decisions, some hard and some normal ones. It are the one that affect our future that make us think twice about following up on those decisions. Clearly many dont follow those decisions, even though they know those are right ones about their future. It is here that Gandhi excelled, it was as simple as it can get for him. if it is right it has to be done, why worry about the outcome, if you know it is right. If there was one era I could live back to it would have been the time when he was alive. People think what would have happened if he was still alive, would we be living a different course as of today, would all the hunger, poverty and prejudices been removed from our society, I guess we all know what would have happened, everybody knows about it, after all everybody has a heart which tells what is right and what is wrong only difference is it is that first step where we fail to take, is what makes the difference to what we want to do.