Risk it All

Many, if not every person in the world wants to take the easy road down life lane, but most of them want to be successful. Why aren't they getting to that point? It is most likely because they don't want to take risks. Risks are taken every day and they could affect your life significantly or very little and that can lead to something big. They will make you or break you. Here's the question. What are the rewards and consequences of taking the risk?

One of the risks adults take is going for the lottery. You have to pay for a ticket and choose numbers you want to win. The problem is that only 1 in 175,223,510 people actually win the mega millions jackpot. The risk is that you could (and probably will) lose money buying the ticket by not winning the jackpot. On the other hand the reward is huge and you could get millions and millions of dollars. Again this is one of those everyday risks that many people are willing to take to achieve wealth.

Another everyday risk is playing sports. There are many rewards to playing sports and there are some consequences that come with it like all risks. When you're playing a sport you love, you dream of becoming the top player in the world, the best of the best. Sadly becoming a professional player is hard enough because only 0.03% of people will make it to the big stage. That means there is a way less percentage of you being the most dominant player of the league. This one is only a small example of risk because if you make it you will be part of that small percentage so you should be proud of yourself. On the other hand it would crush you to hear that you weren't good enough to play at that level. It is more of a mental risk than anything.

Finally the last big risk is working towards one thing and one thing only. Yes, you will probably be better than it than most people because you've worked towards this most of your life, but what if someone they think better comes and takes your spot? Where will you look then? You haven't trained for any other job but this one. This is a huge risk because it is either you are the best and will most likely get paid a good amount of money or you could sadly be overtaken by someone else and have no other jobs to look at.

Risks are one of the things that will make or break your life. They will go one way for one person and the other for another person. Risk is what builds you, risk is what breaks you, risk is what scares you, risk is what decides how you live your life.