Here's another quote I deliberately took from a long stalk on Risk Management Study tonite...ihihi...

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.(Helen Keller)

Wow. I'd say It's another perspective on seeing risk. No no, I'm not going to ramble bout risk in finance, I'm talking bout taking risk in general, in LIFE. I'd always thought Risk Management is an attempt to mitigate risk itself. But here, it stated that one should be exposed to risk, in order to survive in life. What an intriguing insight.

Have you ever seen "Along Came Polly"? where Ben Stiller's playing a Risk Manager, a person that's always wanted to be in 'safe-mode' : no exposure to whatever risk life may bring, He's taken 'risk-mitigating' in its MOST extreme state, in every tiny facets of his life. How life's dull being Ben. Oh, I wouldn't spoil the plot for you who hasn't watched it. It was just an example opposing Helen Keller's quote above. On how life would be dull avoiding danger or risk.

But the idea of mitigating risk is always there. Decision-making is essential in each tiny step of our life, isn't it? I am-I think-one who tends to take risk. I'm very timid as a person, but I believe taking risk is worth the return value--You know, return is usually linearly correlated to risk. For instance,

I can't deny I always get stomach-ache EVERYtime I'm goin mountaineering, or rafting, or climbing. I know the risk, it could be death in its worst case scenario. At some time, my mom would suggest me not to go, she'd say she had bad feeling. Once, I replied,"I could die anytime,anytime Allah wants it to be.Whether I'm going or not, the time has set. Nothing's gonna change it.". I knew, my alter ego--wanting just to go--dominates. I wasn NOT thinking. But then, she said,"But you don't know Allah's plan". "Going, means gaining exposure to risk. And what we can do is to reduce the probability of the exposure, for instance, by not going towards it.". ....oh. I realize she's rite. But still, my alter ego wouldn't let me give in. It simply want some experience, something that has to be taken, or else I'd regret for not taking it, for the rest of my life. And I always follow it. My ego, maybe stupid one. Aww...sorry mum for making you so worried over the years...I haven't been a good daughter...=(.

Or, other ailment of mine.

I've never been satisfied. I know my strengths and weaknesses, people say,"live with your strenghts, not weaknesses". Definitely!, But instead of avoiding my weaknesses, I always tend to stray away from my strenghts, and trying to mend my weaknesses. I always depict the sentence with, "Change your weaknesses into strenghts, as you cannot live with one". As the result, my strenght is not fully developed, but I gained broader spectrum of skills, by developing my default weaknesses. I'm living only once, there's too much to see, to learn, but it's so brief, life.

It happens all the time. And until this moment, my ego usually rules. The other me-TheTimidMe, says it's stupid. It suggest that I should be living with whatever strenght I've already known, and not to wander searching for others, wasting my brief time in this tiny world. Tsk.

Weleh, curhat gini...wekekek...takapalah.

What do you say? I'm stupid or what.