A while back, I fell off a horse (read that literally and without a helmet), blacked out, and forgot the trip from horse to ground. Its weird because to the left was a rock pile and to the right an electric fence. I came incredibly close to being mangled or dead. For weeks I’ve been brewing; trying to figure out how I feel about this. Here’s my dialog:<\/p>\n
I should feel angry or scared or be upset in some way. Come on, I almost died! Any reasonable sense of survival should make me afraid of being near a horse, or riding in the car, or being involved in the myriad of dangerous activities people do from day to day.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
But all I can feel is an awesome sense of satisfaction. I mounted that horse with the full knowledge that I was about to sit on a powerful creature with its own independent thought. One of the consequences is falling off and being hurt in varying degrees. I took 100% responsibility for my actions and I feel great! How many people take full responsibility for the situations in their life? Not many, as far as I’m aware.<\/p>\n
Since this incident, I’ve realized that every action has potentially negative consequences. Walking along the street, cooking, driving, sexual intercourse; almost everything we do could be the last thing we do. Should I stop doing these things? Should I strive to live as safe a life as I can? Hell no.<\/p>\n
Marc’s Life Lesson #10: With freedom comes risk.<\/b><\/p>\n
Its not possible to eliminate risk from life. The best we can do is think our actions through and take responsibility, even when things don’t go the way we’d like.<\/p>\n
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