With great risk comes great reward

This weekend some of my sorority sisters and I went ice skating. Somewhere in between the laughter, falling, and moments of success, I realized that ice skating has a lot in common with living life. This fun filled event started with us lacing up these awkward things that they call skates and walking through the door to the ice rink where the temperature automatically drops twenty degrees. We slowly, one by one, stepped onto the ice and grabbed a piece of the wall. This brings me to my first point....

Now, don't get me wrong, I can be a cautious person however, I realized today that if you don't take risks you will miss out on all of the fun! If you are stuck holding onto a wall, get out there and join in on the fun! Yes, you may fall, but then what happens...? You get right back up and try again, and learn from your mistakes. I have come to realize that with great risk, comes great reward. Push yourself off of that wall you are clinging to and glide right into the spotlight.

This weekend I realized that it is so much fun to try new things, because they ARE scary. We may fail, but at least we got out there and gave it our all. Thomas Edison didn't create the light bulb in one try, it actually took him over ten thousand attempts to create the light bulb! I bet you sure are glad that he didn't live with the attitude of, this has never been done before, the risk of failure is too high, why put in the effort...? If so, we may still be reading by candle light! :)  My advice to you is to go out and do something you've never done before or try something you never thought you would. Be a Thomas Edison, don't give up after one failed attempt, or for that matter even ten thousand. Let nothing and come in between you and your success.

 

 Just like ice skating, life is unpredictable. You can practice something ten thousand times and still make a mistake, but this is what makes life fun!! The thrill and the adventure of life is what keeps me going. If everything were predictable, life wouldn't be any fun. So go out and try something new, something that scares you, because you may be pleasantly surprised. We don't know what the future holds, so instead of worrying, go out and live this crazy, tragic, sometimes almost magic, awful beautiful life that you have been given to the fullest.