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This is geared to the more mature NT'ers... preferably those married with a kid or two, but anyone can give their opinions.
Lately I've been thinking about the risks people take in life. Say you have two people, for the sake of reasoning we'll call them person A and personB.
Person A is a man on his way to living out the dream; wife, kid on the way, nice place to stay, good job, etc.
Person B is a man who's only living for his own perception of happiness. He's not married, but he dates multiple women. No kids. He has an okay deskjob, but since there are no significant others in his life, his can spend his earnings on himself.
Person A has taken more risks in life than Person B. And while it may seem as though Person B is missing out on things, some those risks taken by Person A canprove to be detrimental in the long run.
He risked his heart by falling in love with a woman and taking her to be his wife. But there are factors involved in his life that can lead to the marriagefailing. Person A's job, though a good one, requires a lot of his time and effort that could other wise be devoted to his wife and upcoming child. Once hischild is born, that can lead to the wedge being driven even further between him and his wife seeing as they'll both have a new priority. Person A has toworry about maintaining his marriage, his job, and his child. And god forbid his child were to end up becoming a social deviant later on. He took another riskby bringing a new life into this world without any concrete evidence of how his child would turn out. So the things that would seem to be "ideal" inlife are never a sure thing. Are they really worth the risk?
Person B, on the other hand, has none of these issues to worry about. All that plagues his mind is trying to advance in his job, and who he can take out todinner for a nice evening later on. He can settle done in a small condo and live the life of a bachelor for the rest of his days, but he'd never experiencethe joys of life. But when you analyze some of those "joys", they're comparable to risks that you can't go back from. So is he really losing?
Lately I've been thinking about the risks people take in life. Say you have two people, for the sake of reasoning we'll call them person A and personB.
Person A is a man on his way to living out the dream; wife, kid on the way, nice place to stay, good job, etc.
Person B is a man who's only living for his own perception of happiness. He's not married, but he dates multiple women. No kids. He has an okay deskjob, but since there are no significant others in his life, his can spend his earnings on himself.
Person A has taken more risks in life than Person B. And while it may seem as though Person B is missing out on things, some those risks taken by Person A canprove to be detrimental in the long run.
He risked his heart by falling in love with a woman and taking her to be his wife. But there are factors involved in his life that can lead to the marriagefailing. Person A's job, though a good one, requires a lot of his time and effort that could other wise be devoted to his wife and upcoming child. Once hischild is born, that can lead to the wedge being driven even further between him and his wife seeing as they'll both have a new priority. Person A has toworry about maintaining his marriage, his job, and his child. And god forbid his child were to end up becoming a social deviant later on. He took another riskby bringing a new life into this world without any concrete evidence of how his child would turn out. So the things that would seem to be "ideal" inlife are never a sure thing. Are they really worth the risk?
Person B, on the other hand, has none of these issues to worry about. All that plagues his mind is trying to advance in his job, and who he can take out todinner for a nice evening later on. He can settle done in a small condo and live the life of a bachelor for the rest of his days, but he'd never experiencethe joys of life. But when you analyze some of those "joys", they're comparable to risks that you can't go back from. So is he really losing?
