{"id":2833,"date":"2015-01-28T23:51:34","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T04:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=2833"},"modified":"2015-01-29T00:00:46","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T05:00:46","slug":"2833","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=2833","title":{"rendered":"Sure bets."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"meandpid\"<\/a><\/p>\n

You know how one memory can lead to the next and on and on?\u00a0 Tonight, I heard a song from way-back.\u00a0 It was “Safety Dance” by Men Without Hats. In one moment, I am thrown back 30 years, dancing at a Mega-Dance Bar in Dayton, and in the next moment, I was roller skating in the basement of my childhood home.<\/p>\n

But all of the thoughts, the memories, somehow had to do with taking risks or playing it safe.<\/p>\n

Back to the basement.\u00a0 We had a huge old coal furnace down there.\u00a0 It looked like an Octopus.\u00a0 It had been converted to gas, I think, at some point.\u00a0 But in the back… at the narrowest pass, it had a duct that hung way down, with a big square vent on it.<\/p>\n

So we would roller skate around that furnace, like Roller Derby Queens.\u00a0 I was pretty dang young.\u00a0 But you would get to the backside of the Octopus, and if someone pushed you a little, or you miss stepped…. WHAMMMO.\u00a0 You would crack your head on that vent.\u00a0 Trust me on this one.<\/p>\n

It was a risk we took.\u00a0 We were young.\u00a0 We were Roller Derby Queens.\u00a0 We were girls without helmets, and we didn’t care.<\/p>\n

I used to take a lot of risks.\u00a0 A lot.\u00a0 Some happened as a result of my having an underdeveloped child brain. (See comment above about “cracking head on vent”)\u00a0\u00a0 Yes… it still had lots of years to grow-up and into reason.<\/p>\n

The other times I took unnecessary risks…. typically were a result of my impaired judgement from external influences.<\/p>\n

These days, I am not much of a risk taker.\u00a0 I do the Safety Dance a lot. By definition…. taking risks usually involves some kind of danger, or unpleasant occurrence.\u00a0\u00a0 Yet, on closer inspection…. it is….simply life.<\/p>\n

Every time we place our feet on the floor when we get out of bed in the morning, we begin taking risks.\u00a0 There is no such thing as a sure thing.\u00a0\u00a0 Our safety, our health, our well-being can be disrupted at any given moment in time.\u00a0 Our Safety Dance could lose its beat.<\/p>\n

Sure, we can make educated guesses, well-informed decisions, and even believe in weather forecasters.\u00a0 But it is all open for chance.\u00a0 I think the happiest people in the world are the ones who embrace this…\u00a0 the unknown.\u00a0 The risk. The chance.<\/p>\n

I’m going to try and be more like them.\u00a0 Yep.\u00a0 Once again, I shall skate like a Roller Derby Queen.\u00a0 I’m going to dance without my helmet on.<\/p>\n

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.<\/span>\u00a0 —\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em>Anais Nin<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know how one memory can lead to the next and on and on?\u00a0 Tonight, I heard a song from way-back.\u00a0 It was “Safety Dance” by Men Without Hats. In one moment, I am thrown back 30 years, dancing at a Mega-Dance Bar in Dayton, and in the next moment, I was roller skating in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowyouseeit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2833"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2839,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833\/revisions\/2839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}