Life is one big giant risk. There isn't a single thing that doesn't involve at least some percentage of risk. Most risks people take are calculated and thoroughly thought out. Other times risk is spontaneous and more...risky. But if people didn't put themselves at risk they wouldn't be alive to begin with, and I don't just mean they wouldn't be enjoying life. When I child is conceived and born that is a risk.

What do you do when you think of a risk? Do you consider the harm it will do to you? Do you imagine the what ifs? Do you think about what others would think about your choices? What is your thought process as you assess a risk?

Do you ask yourself: What would Dory do?

Dory would probably do something crazy like jumping into a situation that seems impossible. The impossible stays that way until it is attempted successfully, becoming possible. Does it help to think about what someone else would do? Is it someone who inspires you to take risks or take the safer route?

Do you go back and forth between the beauty and the scariness?

Rapunzel leaves her tower for a dream, but fights with herself about whether to continue. Experiencing something new is exciting and terrifying simultaneously. Does it take someone to encourage you along the path of excitement? Or does it take someone encouraging you into playing things safe? There is nothing wrong with examining the good and bad of every risk, but what pushes you in one direction over the other? Whatever it is, make sure you are okay with what steers the direction of your life.

Do you do it for someone else, for love?

Aladdin made requests from the genie in order to win over the princess. He released the genie because he loved him. People do some crazy things for love. Risks seem much smaller when it is for someone else, and the risk of loosing that person feels greater than any other risk. Movies and books show that anything is possible with love. Perhaps that is wishful thinking or maybe it is based on real life. But either way the risks of life seem less with love and wishful thinking.

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." -T.S. Eliot