Taking Risks

 The fat man, aka Falcor, has the habit is sleeping or laying in the bathtub.  When I am in the bath relaxing he likes to take the risk of walking across the edge of the tub, or sit there and play with things like my razor.   There have been one or two times when he fell into the bathtub: full of water, and me still in it.  Of course he was scared and wanted out, but he continues to take that risk of walking across the edge of the tub.  Or  he will just lay and sleep in the tub (recently the bathroom sink.  He doesn't care if there is water in there or not, he just likes to lay there for some odd reason.  I am not entirely sure of what his facination is with the bathtub, or the bathroom in general.   But he does take the risk and walks the edge of the tub, despite having fallen in twice already.


Even though he has already fallen into the bathtub water twice he still is intent on taking the risk of walking the edge of the tub.  In my last blog I mentioned attempting the impossible, this one is about taking the risks.  Too often when we fail at something, we give up.  We stop taking the risks needed to be successful in anything: career, education, relationships, family.  A lot of the time we want to try something new and different than the usual, but we are too afraid to take the risk.  We are afraid something bad would happen to use if we should attempt taking a risk.  Even if something bad happens once or twice and we fail a little, isn't that a part of life to make mistakes and learn from them to grow.  We fail sometimes in order to find out what we need to do in order to succeed.  But for some odd reason we are too afraid of making those mistakes so we stick to the safety of things we know we won't fail at.  I admit that I have something like that.  I have taken the easy road and avoided the struggles and failures.

Taking risks is a part of life and something we need to do in order to move past certain obstacles within life.  How else will we learn what we need to?  How else will we do anything in life worth doing?  My cat takes a risk of falling into water everytime he walks across the edge of the bathtub, or when he sleeps in the sink.  Yet as humans we are too scared of the "water" to take the necessary risks that we need too.