Lauren Moore

Risking It

Why do we put ourselves at risk? This question may never be answered to everyone's satisfaction. People may have different beliefs about risking something, like "SWIM AT YOUR OWN RISK," meaning your life. Others believe it to mean their jobs or relationships, but either way risks are always conclusions of what may happen in any situation.

Risking one's life on a job is quite prominent to everyone, more sufficiently when it comes to any type of hands-on-jobs (working with machinery). In the poem "Out, Out!" by Robert Frost, Frost tells of a young man who couldn't wait for someone to "call it a day" when rebuilding things around the house. When the young man's sister came outside and yelled "Supper," the man ecstatic with exuberance accidentally sawed his whole hand off while sawing "stove-length sticks of wood." It bled so much that he died before the doctor could rush to see him.

Everyday people put their bodies at risk while working on the job or on household problems. The slightest little twitch, or surprise may be harmful or most possibly deadly. People always go out of their way to take precautions, but we rarely think about what we would do if something bad actually does happen. In everything we do we take risks, so be prepared for the worst.