Topix Questions 29: What Are Your Thoughts on Risk? Scary, Exciting, Unavoidable? & 30: Remember a Time You or Someone Else Laughed Uncontrollably
Question 29/424: What are your thoughts on risk? Is it scary, exciting, unavoidable? Risk is unavoidable and stressful. Two of the most important things to me are stability and security, so risk takes me out of my comfort zone. For the most part I try to only take calculated risks, which means I’ve stayed in the same city and worked at the same job for my entire adult life, because the risk associated with moving away or find a new job or a new boss seems to high to chance. There was a time in my life where risk was exciting and I didn’t shy away from it as much, I wasn’t reckless per se but I certainly didn’t have as much anxiety about making decisions as I am now. I don’t really hang out with risk takers either, I guess because risk takers usually want their friends to participate in the risk taking behavior and I know that’s not me. I admire the risk takers of the world, and I often wish that I had the nerve to do half of what they do....