What Specific Risks Am I Willing To Take To Be Happy?

Risk: A situation exposing to danger

The primordial fear of changing the status quo, exchanging security for the unknown, makes us bombinate words with a certain level of anxiety of undefined proportions, different reactions may vary on a personality basis, personal background, mental predisposition, and just basic simple complexities of the human experience. In fact, innovation does wonders when one person discovers something that can benefit humanity as a whole, and the masses, like the good freeloaders that we are, we benefit off of someone's courage to explore, unless you're a politician, in that case you think somehow, somewhere you had something to do with it and you identify with those things as a part of your job description. #TakeCreditNoMatterWhat

But moving on from that...

How can an existence that lacks risk taking in actuality be detrimental to our quality of life, and explore the vastness of our different array of emotions? Suspiring new oxygen can indeed be liberating, and history has shown, that those who dared, have benefitted immensely, but they have also lost a lot along the way. History books and tell-tales only talk about the outcomes, but almost never talk about the process. It is hard. It is painful. Criticism and fear are the price of change, yet, ironically, change is the only constant in life. That inner voice inside your head is always susurrating

"Time to let go"

"Jump"

"You might see a cliff, but this might be a new way to fly"

And we instead ensnare in heart palpitations from chronic fear, our breath starts festinating to the point of panting loudly, and we go in fight or flight mode, thus, from hesitation we miss opportunities that will probably never come back. Oh, the white lie of better timing? That only works if you're in constant motion because luck favors the most prepared and the hard-workers, not those thinking they're on still land without realizing, that, it's just quicksand waiting to happen. If you want something nobody has, you gotta do something nobody has done. Yes, it is lonely at the top. And like my cousin's dad once said wisely:

This life, is for the brave, and this existence has shown to reward those that went the extra mile, consistently.

The above notion is indeed enticing, filled with hope and emotion, it makes us feel ready to take on the world, at least for those that have their mental buttons pushed and are ready to go by such sayings, nevertheless, we shall be meticulous in our endeavors and our life plans. Taking risks is hard enough, but sometimes calculated risks give us a predisposition to hold onto more spears in our sack, which by extension, will give us more options to try and hit, thus, higher likelihood of outcome success and achievement.

Therefore, what specific risks are you willing to take to achieve a taste of happiness? The picture attached to this article was not chosen adventitiously. You cannot achieve anything unless you do not have your intimate private sphere with all its ducks in a row. This is such a broken record to the point of ulcerating your molars, but it is true, self-care, and whatever that means to you is paramount and needs to come to the forefront of your attention. Then, equip yourself with pen and paper, or laptop, app, what have you, write down as many details as possible, that way, once finished, put it aside with a list of goals for yourself, and with a little bit of pragmatic imagination, start counting down your risks. This, is what you call specific and calculated risk taking.

So, what do you choose? Quicksand or Flying?