Taking
Risks
To live is to take risks. It is absolutely
central. Courage and risk are essential to aliveness. And aliveness is the
thing that we all strive for and long for, yet sometimes barricade ourselves
against out of fear … even as we are still longing for it. If we are not
taking risks, it is for the same reason that people do take risks, namely, we
want to be alive. We all want the same thing. I’m reminded of an elderly man
who lives in a house with a steep wheelchair ramp leading down to the street.
There is always a lot of traffic on his street and every morning my friend sees
him going full speed down the ramp in his wheelchair. One day she asked him,
“Isn’t this dangerous?” And he said with sparks in his eyes, laughing, “Yesss, it is!”
Source: Mastery--Interviews With Thrity Remarkable People by Joan Evelyn Ames
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