Taking risks.

[ABSTRUSE]

I read a great article in my old Oprah magazine. This woman wrote about how when she was younger she wanted to have more adventures, but we all know how that goes.
She decided to take two small risks every week. One was trying a new kind of fruit, the other was making a coffee date with a colleague she didn't really know or telling a stranger something nice.
Her goals seem small but they are risks in a way.
I thought it was a great idea.

I may have to try it myself. Maybe tomorrow I'll leave the house for a while and do something different.

Anyone else going to try it?

 

[English Lady]

yeah, I'll do something different tommorrow too, sounds like an enriching experience

 

[entitled]

i've done that before. It's led to quite a few interesting experiences.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

I do it every now and then. I don't want to make a rule out of it, because then I'd have to NOT take a risk one day, just to get out of the routine...

 

[oggbashan]

Ouch!

I used to take risks when I was younger.

I'm paying for them now.

I tried motorcycle racing - cross country. I fell off. Often.
I tried motorcycle racing - on a track. I fell off. Often.
I tried horse riding. I fell off on to a rock.
I tried rock climbing. I fell off several times.
I tried mountaineering. I fell off.
I tried surfing. I was dumped by 10 metre waves - repeatedly.
I tried bareback elephant riding. I stayed on but learned that elephant hairs are like needles and penetrate the skin.
I tried rugby. Everybody fell on me.
I tried sailing. I fell out into the sea.
I tried rowing in an eight. The eight sank.
I trained to evacuate a sinking helicopter. I survived.
I trained to fight fires under nuclear and biological attack. I survived.
I went camping in what became no man's land between two armed forces. I survived despite learning how to dig a foxhole very fast.
I tried bareback camel riding. I fell off. Sand is NOT soft.
Etc...

I now have a damaged spine that looks, in the words of the radiographer, 'as if someone has been repeatedly hitting it with heavy hammers'.

I sometimes need a cane to walk.

I still take risks but with slightly more discretion.

Og

 

[Svenskaflicka]

I tried rugby. Everybody fell on me.

*tries to hide violent laugh*

Sorry for laughing at your misfortune, og, it's just that your words paint the most funny pictures in my head!

Come on, confess! You ARE Benny Hill, aren't you?

 

[oggbashan]

*tries to hide violent laugh*

Sorry for laughing at your misfortune, og, it's just that your words paint the most funny pictures in my head!

Come on, confess! You ARE Benny Hill, aren't you?

I'm rather larger than Benny Hill and I'm not surrounded by attractive girls (at least not as often as he was).

Og

 

[Svenskaflicka]

I'm rather larger than Benny Hill and I'm not surrounded by attractive girls (at least not as often as he was).

Og

He's dead??? I didn't even know he was ill!

 

[oggbashan]

He's dead??? I didn't even know he was ill!

"Benny Hill
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Benny Hill

Benny Hill shows sold to over 140 countries around the world, and his audience could be counted in billions.
Born January 21, 1924
Southampton, England
Died April 20, 1992
Teddington, England
Born Alfred Hawthorn Hill (January 21, 1924/1925 - April 20, 1992), Benny Hill was a prolific comic British actor. In fact, he was one of the most universally recognized British comedians. He worked compulsively and had only a few friends, although colleagues who knew him closely insist that he was never lonely, but was content with his own company. He never married, although he did propose to two women, one the daughter of a British writer, and was rejected by both. He never owned his own home, nor even a car, instead preferring to rent a small flat in Teddington, a convenient walking distance to the Teddington Studios where he taped the one-off one-hour episodes of his television programme, The Benny Hill Show."

Sorry, Svenskaflicka, he's been dead for 13 years. His memory lives on in all the recorded programmes.

Og

 

[cloudy]

I adore Benny Hill! His show was considered the thing to watch when I was in college - and yes, he was alive then.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Gee, he died before I was even old enough to watch his shows... (according to my mum).

 

[SeaCat]

I take risks every day. The first is getting out of bed.

Cat