To Have Tried and Never Try Again

Oh the world is with many emotions and feelings and of course new and curious things that allow us to expand and venture out on our own.

No matter what we find or discover to try, at first it can be scary, and we may hesitate to even begin to try new things, If nothing else, if for the uncertainty and the unknown.

It varies from one thing to the next, it either will be easy and go over well, or may not be too easy and end in disaster. It is with this taking a chance moment that we see and feel that we can at least try, but even the idea can cause us to decide not to try.

So, an example of trying something new, would be like visiting a city or country, where you have heard the horror stories of what may happen to someone who is considered a foreigner or outsider, and more so terrible things happening to you while you are visiting. Everything from kidnappings to false arrests and imprisonment, to name a few.

It is with this in mind that you may feel bold and be willing to take a chance, more so out of curiosity than safety. You feel invincible. You may like to be an extreme participant, daring yourself not to chicken out, never really knowing how big of a mistake you may be making eventually.

We challenge ourselves to do the daring, the things that may be the final we ever do on Earth, at least while in this lifetime. We want to believe that nothing bad will happen to us, and that we are infinite, yet we are human, and judgement leaves us desiring more.

The bigger the challenge, the greater the risk, the more we want to do it, even when we know better and know that may never succeed in completing such.

We look both ways before crossing the street, we would never copy anything dangerous that we dared to do, even if our friends were deciding to do it. We are not willing to leave our lives to fate or chance, yet sometimes the voices telling us not to are laughing at us as we hesitantly decide to do it. It can be lack of wisdom or plain stupidity, which clouds our judgement, but we push forward.

We feel guilty or doubt, we feel emotions once hidden in our minds from past failures. we start to become bold and feel we need to prove something either to ourselves or worse yet to others who have dared us to do.

This is different from learning to drive a car or going back to school to obtain our GED. or even deciding to wed. These can be life altering decisions, yet they have different outcomes and can either make or break you. Unhealthy habits can become your willingness to be wilder or just to make a point. If this is the case for you wanting to be bolder in making such decisions, yet the previously mentioned ones are ones that set you off on a new and exciting path in life.

We want to belong, want to be a part of something bigger, like seeing the "bigger" picture, and still yearning to be self-defining, self-proclaiming, self-aware. We want to find our niche in life that sets the foundational basis for our future. It is when we realize that we have discovered where we are and where we will be.

We start out small but sometimes we start out at the biggest part skipping all the details and wanting to find out how far we can go with this.

We may know we are not ready, may know we haven't lived up to that point, may even see that those things we dare to do, may not live up to our own set of standards, yet we still do them.

When we live our lives in ways that others see are not possible, they may be jealous of those of us who dare to try, success or fail. It does not mean anything specifically, but they may never let us live the mistakes made down. Hashing and rehashing the past failures can stop the direction one heads in to become who they finally wish to be or are trying to be.

We are willing to try and retry and never give up unless the trial-and-error session becomes more work than we want to try doing.

As one ages, wisdom will appear, yet foolishness will usually win out. Knowledge of what we know or learn will visit us, even what was said to us in our younger days will cause us to think, but for a fleeting moment.

Trying something new, even something dangerous and deadly, can help us to better understand how far we can go and how far we can try to go, if only to build up our self-confidence.

Yes, to have tried and failed is much better than to never have tried at all. Never knowing what may have been, will make us feel like we are living with regrets. We need to feed our curiosities and our desire to venture out, whether solo or as a team, with a like-minded person or friends who also wish to dare and be dared.

Some do it in trying to see what they are capable of, in their minds and in their hearts, to become bolder and braver for what they discover and see happening. Some cowards hide behind the one in a million excuses or reasons why they cannot take chance or tempting fate.

Those who never do are not in a place to tell others they should not do. Those who do, will be better for doing and trying. And those who do not, will one day try.

Sometimes the smartest ones are less than smart. Sometimes the less than smartest ones are smart enough to tempt the hand of fate and take on the dare that has been presented to them by life and its own agenda.

How can one know the outcome, if one never finds out how things would have been after trying.