In the last two days, I've watched both Transformers movies. Michael Bay, by the way, is a genius. They are excellent movies filled not only with action scenes that Mission Impossible can't compete with, but an enthralling story as well.
One of my favorite lines comes in the first. Sam Witwicky asks Mikaela, "When you look back 50 years from now at your life, don't you want to be able to say you had the guts to get in the car?" Looking back at the last four years of my life, I can safely say that I didn't get in the car enough times. So many times when I had the opportunity to do something even a little dangerous, I passed it up out of some misplaced fear. Fear of trouble. Fear of getting hurt. Fear of regret.
That's something that, with the coming years, I'd like to change. I want to be a little more loose with my actions and more open to doing things that I consider out of what I call my responsibility realm. Am I saying that I suddenly desert my morals and turn them in for a life of partying hard? Absolutely not. But we must all be searching for our moral boundaries, and more importantly, ways to occasionally cross them.
I think it was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who said, "Live dangerously, and you live right."
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ooh. risk-taking. i wrote a very nice speech about that once...it was the trampoline one. i think i might have mentioned it to you? maybe not. if not, there was one, haha.
ReplyDeleteThere are ways to be dangerous and take risk without having to cross the line. to be searching to occasionally cross that line is setting yourself up for more risk taking than i think you are going to want to handle. you have to first set those boundaries and then try your hardest to stick to them because if you go into them knowing you are going to cross them then its not really a boundary and you have a problem. everytime you cross it it moves farther away from the line and eventually you dont even rmember what that line looked like. just think about it.
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