I Will Always Be Warm

Today I was eating my lunch in peace by myself and I could not help but over hear some of the conversation of the 2 people behind me. They were engaging in a pretty heated discussion and as far as I could tell they disagreed on the subject. They were discussing her taking a new job. The man's argument was that "this new job is not as stable as your old job. What's wrong with where you are now?" and the lady replied "nothing is wrong with my job now. I am just curious to what this job would be like"...It was about at this point I stopped listening because I realized I was eavesdropping and nobody likes that. But the little part of their conversation that I did catch got me to thinking about risks and the different views on risk that people take. The man took the view most often seen. Content to stay on the same path, not wanting to take the chance on something that may be unexplainablely wonderful because at the same time it may not work out, it may lead to a dead end, a crash and he may be 10 steps back from where he originally was. But the lady took the view less seen. She was curious to take a left off the path and travel through the woods without knowing what she was going to find, she wanted to take the chance that this path maybe would be the greatest thing in her life and was willing to accept the fact that the risk may wind up being a dead end. The greatest difference between the 2 views is that she would not see herself as 10 steps back from where she was, because she took the risk she would see herself as ahead, no matter what happened.

I have often been told that if you play with fire you are going to get burned, thus trying to convince me to stay away from the flame. Yes it is true sometimes you come to close to the flame and get burned, but in that same respect you can never truly be warm if you do not come close to the flame. Risk takers most likely will get burned many times in their life because they continue to inch closer to the flame in hopes of becoming that little bit warmer. Without taking the risk one can never ever know the joy that just may be there.

Take chances, risk it all, give fate a push, lay everything on the line, bet the farm on 17 red, dive head first into the uncertain, love like there is no tomorrow...Because we do not know when anything is going to end. And not knowing this is the only thing we can truly be certain of.

We're all just killing time as time is killing us...Make it worthwhile cause there for all you know there may be no tomorrow