Sanguine Tenacious Tidings

Risks? Which One

Prompt: Taking risks
What is better, staying safe or taking a risk? Did you ever have to make such a choice, and would you do it again?

For me, staying safe is better. Yes, I have taken risks. Once jumped a horse over the wide part of a hay wagon on a dare. No, I would never do it again. There are other parts of my life that are at risk. I try to stay safe the best way I know how. As a child, I use to tell the truth as a natural part of life. Now, at my age I chose to tell the truth or at least facts that I think are true. That gains me a lot of anger from others. Many of the people I know live by telling lies. It makes for a difficult society to live in.

One time, before I went to college I was watching the news on TV. It was coverage of some disaster. The newscaster gave out information about the amount of people who had died in the disaster, about 5. I changed channels to another news. channel. Same disaster, newscasters estimate of casualties 100; changed channels again, newscasters estimate 23, Later in life during a journalism class I asked how 3 newscasters could give out such varied estimates of casualties in such close proximity of time. The answer, because those are the amounts the media were being told by people who were cleaning up the disaster.

Most real news stories tell you what happened. Because of time constraints, the why is rarely reported until later if ever. You can find facts if you look for them. Whether you are seeing the true facts or not is sometimes a tossup.

Life is a risk. Some risks are greater than others. One day at a time.

Have a good day. Apondia