[quote=afx114]If it weren’t for optimism and “dumb risk” there wouldn’t be footprints on the moon.[/quote]

Afx: Well said and exactly right.

Scaredy: At some point you realize there’s a difference between “living” and “existing”. Spoken as someone who used to jump out of airplanes as a job, “living” is a LOT more fun. I don’t recommend the getting shot at part of that same job, but as Winston Churchill opined, there is something exhilarating about getting shot at and missed. You have to experience Life, the good, the bad, and everything in between. What’s the point of having been here, otherwise?