High Risk Behavior

The ones that are brought there for heart attacks, strokes, and aneurisms I am compassionate for and really have a lot of empathy, sadness, and sympathy for the family that's left behind.

Those other group of special folks who come in for cuts, broken bones, loss of blood, fractures, full arrest due to trauma that is due to stupid risky behaviour such as illegally drag racing on the street, skateboarding off of roofs, etc. I have very little sympathy for. I just do my job for them to my utmost, but cannot help but feel that their poor judgement got them into that situaltion.

From these experiences, I've learned, that CALCULATED risk is all that I'll take. If I'm taken out by accident, so be it. I just don't want to accelerate my chances of dying by risky behaviour. These people are selfish and just thinking about their own fun/excitement. What about the others in their lives that count on them or are affected by their behaviour?

Life is very precious. Live it well, be mindfull of others rights to exist peacefully.

cliff :D
 
From these experiences, I've learned, that CALCULATED risk is all that I'll take. If I'm taken out by accident, so be it. I just don't want to accelerate my chances of dying by risky behaviour. These people are selfish and just thinking about their own fun/excitement. What about the others in their lives that count on them or are affected by their behaviour?
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As far as I am concerned, they knew what they got into when they first met that person.

So to speak, I'd rather die on my skateboard at 30years than from a stroke at 90. I don't want to spent my last years laying on a bed and not being able to do anything else than breath.

No offense, just different points of view.

Keno
 
You can do whatever risky behaviour you want and potentially die at 30 or you can have a lifetime of moderate risk, life a full life and die of a stroke at 90, knowing you lived a full life with others in it, being there for them and not just yourself. Not just for you own fun.

It's like getting high on crystall meth. Very intense, very fun and exciting, a high like you never felt and life shortening. Or just doing moderate fun things like pick nicks, camping, going to movies, traveling (you know, moderate highs), for a long, long time. Prolonging your one time here on earth.

Just different viewpoints.

cliff
 
I just want to point out that I am, in fact, a Ninja in training, and not a Ninja wannabe, as Munk mentioned....
 
Oh, I'd say anyone who goes to Japan and lives in a completely different society so he can study martial arts is serious. Looney? But serious.



munk
 
Nice, thought-provoking thread!

Like everyone else, I've taken a certain amount of risk just by growing up as an active male in society. That started when as an 8-year old I'd jump off of various points on the roof of a house to the bushes below just to see if I could do it. Then, trying to jump from house to house to prove I had some vertical abilities.

I never was quite the daredevil in my teens but did take risks that are more than usual now that I think about it. I grew up as a multi-sport athlete and was identified as having long-term potential as a boxer. That itself is more than the usual because I went in the ring against the toughest from the hood and barrios in LA, guys who would ordinarily give a concussion to the ordinary person within a couple minutes. But though I was their match, now that I think about it, all it would take is a momentary lapse in focus to change your life forever -- just because of the opponent's capabilities.

And through grad school and early in my professional career (software developer), I participated in hardcore kickboxing club where you get your face pummelled regularly. I had to miss some days of work because of intense fights. Then my boss made me realize that this was detrimental to my career. It made a lot of sense.

And another development was having kids (after marrying). That really toned me down a lot. You take a risk, you get injured, you don't make money and can't feed your kids. That thought settled me down big time.
 
In this part of the world, wind is calm. So surfers and windsurfers alike.......the daredevil ones, goes out to sea when there is a typhoon coming. great winds, big waves.

But then some of them may not be as good as they think. they get into trouble, somebody called the coastal patrol and the air rescue unit.

Those are the people which have their loved ones and families that put their lives at stake because those are their jobs and they believe in it and sworn by it.

Those are the people I worry about and have a deep sympathy for.
 
Where are you from, Astrodada?

I surf and windsurf as well, go figure ;)

Never had to be rescued though, always made it on my own.

Keno
 
Life without risk would be boring. Why go through it? We all are going to die in the end anyway.

I am not saying "Be stupid". But for gawd's sake, get your heart to pumping! A good shot of adrenalin every now and then is a good thing, me thinks.

Reminds me of the Thoreau quote, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."

I know lots of people described precisely by that quote. I like to think I am not one of them. I'm probably delusional.
 
richardallen said:
Where are you from, Astrodada?

I surf and windsurf as well, go figure ;)

Never had to be rescued though, always made it on my own.

Keno
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The concrete jungle of Hong Kong. :o
 
munk said:
I've seen adorable house wives in huge SUV's on the highway involved in more high risk behavior than an Indy racer, yet totally oblivious to the fact going 70's mph on ice pack, even with all wheel drive, is suicidal.


munk
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These days, it may be more dangerous to life and (limb?), to slide between the sheets with said "adorable housewife" than to slide on ice at 70 mph.
 
Semper Fi said:
Life without risk would be boring. Why go through it? We all are going to die in the end anyway.

REPLY :
Life without risk may be boring . Risk without life could be just as boring as well . I don,t ride motorcycles anymore . The conditions of the roads where I live and four wheeled drivers discourtesies just take all the fun out of it for me . I do hike in the woods alone,am a traditional archer ,Hunt sometimes , throw sharpened implements ,want to build a forge and generally live a little closer to the land . Many of these ways of life carry elevated risks with them as a matter of course . Just being alone in the woods means being more responsible . As simple a thing as a cut or slipping and falling can prove to be a little trickier to handle when there is no-one else to handle it for you . Hearing a cartridge being cycled into a big bore rifle can really get my motor ruinning when I,m slipping/hunting along a mist filled trail near abouts darkness. I never found out if that rifle hunter/poacher was taking aim or not as I sung out (can we say screamed ?) and I never found out exactly where he was ! I just don,t find it necessary to add any excitement to my life . Its just about as much as I can take right now . (Of course that 1958 suicide shift is looking mighty good ! Only five thousand you say ? L:O:L
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Reminds me of the Thoreau quote, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Semper


That reminds me of a munk quote; "Masked Men lead lives of quiet desperation."


munk
 
Ya'll please note that I am keeping quiet on this thread...

That's about as close to risk avoidance as I get.
 
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