Sometimes we get second chances - but why take a chance losing out the first time around?

Why waste precious seconds, minutes, and hours waiting cause you want to play it safe, waiting cause the people who surround you live in fear so their best advice is to take the safe road, why take the risk of being hurt, rejected, laughed at, not hired and being uncomfortable. Is it really easier for you tolive your life with a whole lot of “what if’s” rather than a whole lot of “I did it!”?

I myself love the edge, I love the high I feel when I take some of the biggest risks and make my biggest mistakes, it is those times that I learn some of the most profound life lessons and it is at those times I truly grow as a person and develop deep compassion and wisdom from my circumstance. We miss out on some of life’s greatest adventures because we allow fear to direct our path, we are not promised another moment and not everyone will have the opportunity of having a second chance, so have faith and courage in your decisions - make them your own, make them worth remembering, most of all don’t forget to make them! 

I have felt humiliation at some deep levels, and I have fallen more times than you will ever know - honestly I am proud. I have no regrets whatsoever, so its easy to say I told you so, and its easy to play it safe, but how many of you can honestly say at this moment right now "I regret nothing and I am completely satisfied with the live I have lived" now that my dear friends is a life worth living. No one in this world knows what is right and what is wrong, it is not for us to judge each others actions, no one will ever understand your choices but you. So make your decisions your own, make your own mistakes, not someone else's. Life is so precious, I cannot stress this enough, its too short of a ride not to enjoy it fully, and smile, be silly, and throw your hands up in the air when it gets scary, be sure to laugh the whole way through.~Will "Story" Rivera

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