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Phrase: Push your luck
Recently I created a new lesson titled The Joy of Fear.
Some people enjoy the endorphin rush they get after exposing themselves to a scary situation.
I’m referring to safe things with a low risk of injuries, such as horror films and roller coasters.
However, some people prefer to push their luck.
These thrillseekers find movies and roller coasters blasé and prefer more death-defying stunts such as extreme sports, wrestling crocodiles or jumping out of perfectly good airplanes.
All those things are great, but problems may arise when you push your luck.
You push your luck when you continue to take risks on the assumption that your success will continue.
We’ve all heard stories of people who had worked with lions, tigers, bears or crocodiles being attacked.
You can only push your luck doing things like that for so long before the inevitable happens.
Just last week, a Japanese man was killed by his pet bear.
Many people would say he was asking for it and pushed his luck too far.
That’s why I have a list of things to stay away from, including sharks, jellyfish, tigers, lions, bears, wolves and anything else which has a mind of its own and is prone to kill humans.
You don’t have to put yourself in a death-defying situation to push your luck.
You can do it with gambling, teasing someone, or even speeding.
Sure, you may get away with it for a while, maybe even years and years, but eventually, the law of averages will catch up with you.
Push your luck too long, and you will lose big, have a few teeth knocked out or receive a hefty ticket from the cops.
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