Risk Is The Heartbeat Of Life: Having Less And Gaining So Much More
She said, “You need a vacation. A little get away from things…”
“Actually, no,” I replied. “I’m living in a get-away spot every day. I wake up to a view over the water. I watch the sunset every evening. I’m four miles away from the beach. I can walk every day without layers of clothes. I don’t live for July and August only. I don’t feel the breath of winter once September rolls around. Financially, I’m 60 percent poorer each year and environmentally, a million percent richer. With all the challenges, pain and risk we face, I find solace in this simple escape of mine.”
Living is hard and dangerous. The earth is a perilous place, and even in the most mundane things, there is risk.
Risk is with us constantly in the decisions we make and in the ones we don’t.
Risk is in the meals we eat.
It’s in alarms we set and the batteries we forget to change.
It’s in the jobs we take, in the ones we pass up, and in those we quit.
The environments we destroy and in those we preserve.
In the things we relish and those we resist.
It’s in the greetings and hellos and the goodbyes and farewells.
