So, what is more risky, to take this risk or to refuse it? We never know until we try Though my opinion on this is that risks should be calculated, they should be for a reason. Bold risks are worthless and dangerous.
I am taking risks literally every day: I am an entrepreneur, so I have to think of unknown and make decisions really quickly.
There is a lot of crazy stuff that I have been doing in my business life, sometimes feeling like Ms James Bond, some risks worked, some were useless, but I keep the lessons and experience.
Though now I would like to tell some stories about my recent risks with wild nature. I have been to East Africa last month, and it is all about interacting with wild animals. The idea of those popular African safaris is that you are able to be close to animals in their natural environment. You are being taken with a protected car through savanna and shown all those wonderful colorful species (lions, cheetahs, leopards, zebras, rhinos). Me and my friend decided to go beyond the rules, took bikes and went on our own. We saw zebras staring at us so close, we saw a family of giraffes (2 adults and 3 babies) going to the lake to drink). wooh, we were fortunate not to have gotten into a big trouble!!
There was another case (even more dangerous) we witnessed: in the middle of the day one hippo decided to get out of the lake and eat the grass (normally hippos would do that at night). We were soo amazed to see this Hippo which looked like a big dark pig peacefully eating grass and sometimes looking around and at us. Out of crowd, only me and my friend Karina came up with an idea to take close up photos, so we started doing photo shooting 2 meters from the hippo. This might sound quite OK for you now. BUT did you know that hippos cause more deaths in Africa than any other mammal? Hippos are the biggest killers, despite of their lovely look. When they get mad, they destroy whole villages and everything and everyone they meet on their way… So, we were lucky again, thanks God.
Looking back, why did we take these risks with wild nature?
First, we didn’t have this feeling of danger, in our modern world with all the gadgets and protection we have we are becoming less sensitive to nature.
Secondly, we were not aware of such a BIG risk of what we were doing.
Third, adrenaline! We really wanted to approach these animals really close and so we did!
The moral is: take risk, drink champagne, but always be aware of what you are doing, right here right now.
I am taking risks literally every day: I am an entrepreneur, so I have to think of unknown and make decisions really quickly.
There is a lot of crazy stuff that I have been doing in my business life, sometimes feeling like Ms James Bond, some risks worked, some were useless, but I keep the lessons and experience.
Though now I would like to tell some stories about my recent risks with wild nature. I have been to East Africa last month, and it is all about interacting with wild animals. The idea of those popular African safaris is that you are able to be close to animals in their natural environment. You are being taken with a protected car through savanna and shown all those wonderful colorful species (lions, cheetahs, leopards, zebras, rhinos). Me and my friend decided to go beyond the rules, took bikes and went on our own. We saw zebras staring at us so close, we saw a family of giraffes (2 adults and 3 babies) going to the lake to drink). wooh, we were fortunate not to have gotten into a big trouble!!
There was another case (even more dangerous) we witnessed: in the middle of the day one hippo decided to get out of the lake and eat the grass (normally hippos would do that at night). We were soo amazed to see this Hippo which looked like a big dark pig peacefully eating grass and sometimes looking around and at us. Out of crowd, only me and my friend Karina came up with an idea to take close up photos, so we started doing photo shooting 2 meters from the hippo. This might sound quite OK for you now. BUT did you know that hippos cause more deaths in Africa than any other mammal? Hippos are the biggest killers, despite of their lovely look. When they get mad, they destroy whole villages and everything and everyone they meet on their way… So, we were lucky again, thanks God.
Looking back, why did we take these risks with wild nature?
First, we didn’t have this feeling of danger, in our modern world with all the gadgets and protection we have we are becoming less sensitive to nature.
Secondly, we were not aware of such a BIG risk of what we were doing.
Third, adrenaline! We really wanted to approach these animals really close and so we did!
The moral is: take risk, drink champagne, but always be aware of what you are doing, right here right now.