Choices…are you lucky, or unlucky?
When you have to face several options at the same time, do you usually consider yourself as being lucky, or unlucky?
During those moments when you have a chance to create an option, would you simply try to stick with what is there, or would go for it and create a possibility for yourself?
Many of us belong to a group of people one of my dearest colleagues calls as “safety player”, do you get what he meant? 
Hehe…. What he actually meant were people who like to play it safe. You know, not taking risks, not taking decisions, putting a lot of efforts simply by trying to be safe. Many of us feel like being stuck, and yet, are too afraid to let go of the “devil we know” for the unknown one(s).
And for some people, choices seem to always come at the least fortunate timing. You know those moments when more than one opportunity come knocking and you are left utterly confused and frightened. Would I make the best option? What would happen if I choose this? How about that? What if….this….What if …that…. A zillion of “if”s haunting your sleepless nights… Hm, sounds familiar?
So then again, what are you when you are in such situation? Do you consider yourself to be lucky? Or unlucky, instead?
Would you be happier if you are stuck in a situation where you simply want to get out, but just don’t know where to… or when you are cursing yourself for not being able to make up your mind?
Sometime…well, correction, very often, life and people surprise me a lot.
There are times when my own life and people around me take a sudden turn that I never thought was possible. And at other times, I was simply dying to push myself, and other people (strictly for positive reasons…by the way 
) off the cliff and fly away.
To my Friends, MS and MM (hey guys, you even have similar initials..)
To one of you I would really feel like congratulating… I never thought you would have the guts to take the path you are taking right now. To be honest, I always knew you have better things to do than sitting around leading a “normal” life, but what you choose to do right now is really out of this world. Hope you are faring well…
To the other one I would really love to say, take the jump. If you fall, you’ll fall. But knowing you, I think you would not fall that far. You know what, I think we should start appreciating ourselves better. And if these people don’t appreciate you enough, maybe then, they don’t deserve you. I never thought that someday I would agree to this statement, me a “safety player” 
at heart…, but now I come to realize that indeed, it is better to know whether we fail or succeed, better to try our chances and know what’s at the end of the tunnel, rather than asking ourselves, “What would have happened IF….”
And yes, Mizz, I AM asking myself.
What would I do in six months time? Would I end up doing this? Or would I end up doing that? Would I end up trying to survive? Or would I end up leaving commitments in the trash bin? Would I find myself celebrating Christmas 2008 here, or there? Or what?
And if life chooses not to be so complicated, I guess it would not be this fun. So yes, I guess I am lucky, though in a couple of months I might reverse my opinion 
How about you? Are you taking risks? I hope they are all worth taking.
