Risky business.

Chance
–verb (used with object)
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to take the chances or risks of; risk (often fol. by impersonal it ): I'll have to chance it, whatever the outcome.

To take a chance by definition is to be at the risk of an unwanted outcome. Everyday we take chances, though some smaller than others; we risk our lives, our hearts and our words. The more you chance and succeed the more confident you get, for example, risking an orange light at the traffic lights, the more you get away with it, the more likely you are to continue to run them, no matter how far from green and close to red they are. With this idea in mind, I question if we chance it to often? Without a stern word or punishment, whether it be out right or the backlash of something, do we ever learn to count our blessings? Or are some of us destined to push our luck.

When put at a situation of choice, we are in a position of change and chance. We make a choice, always with risk; we take a chance on something. People give up on each other everyday, sometimes its easier to give up the chance and protect yourself from the possible outcome. We run from our friends, we don’t give chances, we leave with no words or explanations, simply because its easier for us; in some ways, I cant say this is a bad way to go about it; however without chance, there is no change (situation or personally), without change – no matter how small, there really is no living, we are merely getting busy dying.

When it comes down to it, we should take chances on people, we shouldn’t let others down, what is there to life without the people you care about in it? Every let down is another reason to add a brick to your walls, its so easy to fall into that. Some people are higher risk than others, some things are higher risk than others. But maybe that’s the point? I say this having not taken a lot of chances I should have, not given a lot of chances I should have, my lessons have served me right, but those chances are gone now, I got it to late. So my question is, do words time out? How many no matter what situations are there? Maybe the answer is to believe there is none.