There is beauty is the careful execution of risk.
It is the perceived pain of risk that discourages the attempt.
This is a risk asymmetry and is related to the human bias apparent in the pain-pleasure principle (coupled with “momentum”) which causes so many in the world to suffer one of the greatest of human tragedies: loss of opportunity to pursue full potential.
There are huge costs to the ego in failure and some people can tolerate those much better than others. Those of us who have a propensity to not give too much of a **** what other people think have a distinct advantage here. Failure can be felt less, re-framed, or even re-defined in a way that is positive, beneficial, valuable to the extent that is disappears from the risk equation (in addition to all the additional hidden costs involved in that, like identity, image, ego, etc.). Having a higher calling, a mission, also really helps here in that every inch forward makes this world that much better off, so it’s all gravy.
For those of us with a deep appreciation of life and mortality and gratitude, it’s all gravy anyway, so why the **** not. We’re all born in the same neighborhood, a tiny planet in the Milky-Way Galaxy called Planet Earth. We all live somewhere on the spectrums of health and wealth, privilege and persecution, size and shape, shade and attitude, etc. In that way we are also all participants in this giant party called life. Some say there’s an after party, some say this is it, some say it never ends. Either way, we all seem to be in this together, especially here and now. This is the present, the miracle of life. Biology has ensured we are a miracle. Weather you’re the tree that was one of thousands of seeds, or a human, one of countless sperms and eggs, past and present, miracles all.
Being a miracle is the cost of admission to this party.
Then what!?
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