Taking a chance is something we all do each day. Most of the chances are small ones. The big ones though, those are the stressful ones. Some people get exhilaration from taking chances. So run something up the flagpole and see if it flies.
People making a million-dollar stock trade might seem like they are taking a chance. But it’s probably less of a chance than an individual deciding which bill not to pay or if the family will go hungry or without heat or having a car repo’d or even worse a foreclosure because they haven’t been paid in a month.
I’m not going to even get into the life and death chances we all take every day. Like getting into a car and having a dump truck run you off the road because they can’t stay in their lane. Yeah, it happened to me on the way home today.
I took a chance to start a business once. It was a wonderful experience even though it didn’t work our for me. It did for my two partners though.
A chance was taken when I asked for her hand in marriage.
Picking a medical treatment or surgery and taking the chance, that is the cure.
Life is a chance. A chance to explore, experience and embrace.
Random Thoughts of the Day
- Now might not be the time to fly.
- Lying to yourself is the first step in lying to others.
- The Military, the National Guard and Police all have important decisions to make shortly. Will they take up arms and use force against their own population at a peaceful demonstration?
- The economy is the same as it’s always been. The have’s are happy and the have nots aren’t. The thing that has changed is there are fewer have’s and a lot more have nots.
- New school, a digital picture frame on the desk. Old school, hundreds of pictures on my office walls.
- A man who needs monuments, ballrooms and accolades for himself, is not a man.
