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Idiom: Take your life in your hands
As with most things in life, timing is everything.
There’s a time to play it safe and stay calm, and then there are times to take your life in your hands and do something more risky than usual to get an adrenaline rush.
It’s always more exciting to take your life in your hands and do something that could result in your death than reading a book on your sofa with a cup of tea.
At first, that may sound very unnatural, dangerous and crazy.
Perhaps you’re right about that.
However, the truth is that people do crazy things every day.
Ordinary people do skydiving, base jumping, putting their heads inside an alligator’s mouth, and researching great white sharks in South Africa daily.
Police, firefighters, military personnel, search and rescue members, and members of the Coast Guard or even zookeepers wake up each day, never knowing if they will have to take their lives in their hands.
Life presents few opportunities for English teachers, such as myself, to take our lives into our own hands.
On second thought, driving becomes more of an adventure every day.
With all of the elderly drivers swerving around the roads and new drivers who cannot reverse or parallel park in any way, shape or form, I may be taking my life into my own hands by getting behind the wheel of my beloved little car.
Putting that aside for a moment, though, many people, let’s call them thrillseekers, actively search out dangerous situations so they can experience the thrill of taking their lives in their hands.
Extreme sports, not for the faint of heart, have become so popular that some have made it to the Olympics.
Remember that whenever you do something dangerous, either intentionally or by accident, you’re taking your life in your hands.
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