"You are not safe. Neither am I"

[mdlbear]

cadhla says this very well: Channel 11, Worldwide: you are not safe.

...There is always, sadly, a way to die.

Why am I telling you this? Becuase there is a difference between taking precautions and living in fear. Wearing your helmet when you ride a bike is taking sane and reasonable precautions. Throwing your bike away and refusing to ever let your children learn to ride is living in fear. This is a huge, fabulous, amazing world, full of huge, fabulous, amazing experiences just waiting to be had. But you cannot have them if you trade freedom for a security which is always, inevitably, illusionary at best.

You are not safe. Neither am I.

Welcome to life.

(First spotted in cflute's LJ.)

Comments

[kayshapero]

I think one of the first really serious things I taught Vicky was that life isn't safe, for pretty much the same reasons in the snip you quote above. You take reasonable precautions, then go for it!