What experience would you be willing to risk everything for?
Saturday, March 14, 2009
I don't think I have an answer to the question. However, I want to comment on this video. I found it to be so beautiful. I feel like I need to be more willing to do something with my life. I want to have something that I want so badly that I am willing to do what the kiwi bird is doing. Plus the kiwi is so cute after he finishes nailing all of the trees to the side of the cliff and he jumps up to clap his feet together!
Real inner peace that doesn't require me to submit my own thoughts and ideas to a person or organization that claims to speak for God, and get their 'approval' to think what I think and believe what I believe.
I wish I could live my life over knowing what I know now, but I'm not willing to risk everything for it. I wouldn't want to risk my family & friends, I just wish I could have done better.
Would I be willing to risk eternity to know that it exists? Would I be willing to risk anything for anything? Too many unknowns...so I'll have to take comfort in what is, I guess.
The chance to travel to every country, stay for a minimum of 2 weeks in each, have it be fully paid for by some generous soul. The next question would be: If you could take just one person with you, who would it be? That's a tough one.
Totally depends on the odds.
But if to risk everything means including my own life, then it really has to be worth dying for. Honestly, I'm stumped. I would like a good many things in most of the realms of my life, but none worth losing what I already have. And I'm not talking material wealth--that's transient and could go up in a fire and I'd still be okay. I have my friends, family, talents, health.
If I could change the world with this risk, then I'd go against pretty steep odds to eliminate violence and ignorance.
I'd be willing to risk everything for one afternoon with my dad. He's been dead nearly half my life now, and I really miss him. It would be great to just talk with him again.
@sra
What an absolutely splendid response.
Hard to say...if there was something worth risking everything for, I'm sure I would have done it already and therefore would have something to write here.
There's currently nothing that holds me to this world because I am not attached to material things and although I am attached until my heart aches to my friends, family and humanity in general, I know that loved ones will always be connected to me whether I am here or in the spiritual realm. Therefore, I guess anything I do have is worth risking for that one thing that might be otherwise unattainable. It would have to be something pretty huge though...
SRA, your comment is pretty much ideal - although I'm trying to get there without the need for risk ;-p
Death,..? No, really no joke, i'm just awfully excited to know what's next,...
The experience of waking up next to the woman whom I love more than anything. Looking into her eyes and knowing that we'll be happy and together forever.
sorry, don't mean to be a blabbermouth but i just thought of a really great answer. when it popped into my head, it moved me, so i have to answer again.
to live in a world with absolutely no fear.
no living being would ever experience fear. very dr suessian i know, but come on. fun, huh?
keep in mind the question says "willing to risk", not "would trade for". ;)
to experience what happens after our body dies. but i'm fine waiting...or should i say, living.
another answer i have is to experience complete and utter peace while being 100% conscious. kinda like "...on your death bed you will receive total consciousness...so i got that going for me...which is nice."
I thought that is what life was? Sometimes being human seems like you risked Everything (literally, separating from being amorphously part of the universe) to experience what it's like to not know Everything. This whole being human thing is soo weird sometimes, but I would risk it again and again and again.
Loving someone that makes me a better person and having someone love that makes me want to help them fulfill their greatest wish
And now I answer. I would love to build a sky scraper, a huge national geographic one hour special type sky scraper. Yeah.
First off, amazing clip.
Secondly, I would risk everything to be the one who finds the cure for cancer. Cliche`? Maybe. But I've seen too many St. Judes Children's Hospital commercials to let it just slip by. Plus, a lot of people close to me have been victims of cancer.
Last, @MOWNA, I've been to the Holy Lands (for two weeks to be exact) and didn't get shot. Great expierence but definatly something you do not have to give up everything for. It's very achievable in your life.
To (pick one):
end injustice
secure environmental stability
discover and test a grand unifying theory of physics
@garron
WHOA!
I would be willing to risk everything to be the one that causes all tyrants to stand down.
well, i'd be willing to risk everything i knew for a chance to visit the holy lands and be able to stay there without getting shot.
So .. GO WORLD PEACE! V
I watched this clip early this morning and it has brought joy to my heart all day. Thanks.
I would risk my life and everything associated to it to spend one day experiencing "life" after death.
Being part of bringing about the end of the international sex trade. 27 million people in slavery worldwide, more than at any point in human history--many of them young women born or sold into forced prostitution. It'd be worth giving everything for that.
I am willing to risk putting aside any misconceptions and limited understandings about reality that are based upon my material existence...
...for the opportunity to live a life that is as spiritual as it can get... and by that I mean living my life in accordance to the moral and spiritual guidance provided by any and all of the holy books and Writings of God as revealed through His messengers...
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Love. True, actual love.The kind that lasted until I was 80... so I could be part of that old coulple you see where around, the kind where their still holding hands...
i already gave up everything i knew and all ideas i knew for that one thing....ME. not so easy but soooooo worth it. are there calm seas yet?
Probably instant Zen oneness . . . but, could I Non-Think about it a minute?
I've risked alot of things in my life before just to have one more drink or drug . Been there done that . And made it back alive. Got clean and sober , got my life , family and friends back as well. Things might not always go the way I want them to go. And I might not have everything I want.But I'll stay right where I am thank-you and not risk anything for any esperience. I've come to far to go backwards.
Well, I think risk is a little different from sacrifice. . . so I'll say that I'd put my mortal existence at risk to "touch" God in some tangible way. Even more, to see my son grow to be a kind, wise, spiritual man who raises his own kind, wise, spiritual children.
there is nothing that i would give absolutely everything up to experience, however, i would make sacrifices to be in love.
like most people at this point in my life it would probably have to be Jesus himself to ask me to follow him(which is kinda what he did) yet i admire those everyday that do.
the military where soldiers die everyday to suppotr strangers and a belief that they are doing what has 2 b done. police officers who i send special prayer out to i can only imagine how hard it is for them . They deal with the worst society has to offer on a daily basis and risk their lives and most of the time do not get any respect for doing their jobs from those they are sworn to protect and serve. and finally my childhood heros the rodeo clowns who without a doubt [put their lives on the line every day to protect strangers and sometime risk and loose their lives to save a cowboy they might not even like it takes a rare breed of person to be willing to do that someone i believe worth admiring and apreciating
There is no experience that I would give up everything for. Wouldn't you do that if you had nothing to lose?
Saving a loved one's life...saving the world...or finding out the ultimate truth
@susantroche Amen!
I have what most people would give up everything for and I'm keepin it!
Everything, like everything? I can't think of a single experience I'd be willing to risk my life, family, friends and well-being for. At least not voluntarily. I guess that are certain circumstances where I would--saving someone's life, standing up for a good cause, protecting someone I love--but I'm not risking everything so I can hang out with George Clooney for a day.
i am not willing to give up any of my experiences, not even the worst ones. it's how i got here, how i am going there.
I can't think of any experience worth risking all that I have for. I couldn't do it.
happiness, but you dont really have to risk anything for that. just enjoy the life you have to the fullest extent
Does 'everything' include my health, my life? I suppose, if I lived in Persia back in the 1800's and I could have met Baha'u'llah, or the Bab, I would definately have given my life. But here and now, living in America, I can't think of anything :-( My mind is blank! )
I don't think there is one. If I give everything up for some single experience, then I am left with nothing. Is it really worth losing all the things that are already important to me for an experience that might turn out to be completely fleeting?
i love this short...
i don't have much to risk.. i just want to be happy and have a family of my own one day.
I think that depends on what you mean by everything...
Would I give up my family/friends for that one thing? no absolutely not
Would I give up everything for my family/friends? in a heartbeat.
But not thinking about it so seriously i would want to travel the entire world. But not to stay in resorts or hotel, to experience the culture of where you are. Stay in the homes and eat the food that the people who live there eat. learn there language. help their community. do something to change what you can. that is something i would do a lot to be able to achieve.
Falling in Love. The world is a whole different place when you have that Soul Mate to share it and change it with.
I would risk everything for the people i love. They mean everything to me.
To experience love...real love. The kind where I am loved just as much in return.
For my family and friends to live healthy, happy lives...I'd risk everything.
i risk everything to see world peace be achieved. i mean like REAL world peace...where the UN has a giant constitution-like paper that every nation would sign and actually be put into use. to see children learning how to love uncondiionally for every other person in the world, to see guns put down in exchange for an authentic trinket in another country.
beautiful.
Their is a spot on the PBS Chanels where a Fish sees Salmon swiming up stream on TV The fish is in a fish bowl in an apartment in the city. What he does to risk everything at least has the possibility of a better life, although it is all or nothing for the fish as well.
hmm, that's a hard question. i know what i want the most, i want to finish off college and go on to be a great child psychologist and i want to settle down with my soulmate and have children; above all i want to have a loving family that i can travel with and start up my bookshop with so if i had to risk everything it would be to have healthy children, marry my soulmate and open up a successful bookshop so that i could have the means to really enjoy my life with my family.
Of course being able to teleport, do some magic or go to Hogwarts (as i heard someone mention before) would also be extremely awesome <3 i just wouldnt risk my family for it if i had one.
Nothing, because I wouldn't risk my child for anything. That's the clarity that comes with being a parent. How anybody with a family can engage in anything destructive to another human being is beyond me.
Mine are kind of self-serving, I admit...
--to travel in space
--to create the financial freedom to live life and employment on my own terms, and escape my abusive boss. I'm working on that one now; space travel, not so much. I've had my inciting incident and now life will change, probably at great risk.
@KarmaKitty I like how you think Karma, to have a fulfilled life is something i know i want too. I kid about wanting to live in Hogwarts, but truly i feel like being able to be an old woman and sit on the porch of my house with my sister who is also my best friend and reflect on a well lived life would be ideal.
to see a world truely at peace. to be able to turn on the news and have something good to hear about. to be able to know that i don't have to struggle to pay the bills and feed my family. I would risk a lot for that, possibly everything.
I would risk everything for the experience of seeing my Fiance to be free of cancer and my daughter to grow up healthy.
I would risk everything to be happy, thoroughly happy with a long life. For me that would mean that my parents would stay healthy and active for a long time, that my sister and I would always be best friends and live within driving distance of one another, that I find a good husband and that we both have good jobs with health benefits and the opportunities to be with our children, and to at least be able to travel to a new country once a year. That would be the happiest life I know and I would risk everything for it.
I would never risk EVERYTHING for another thing. There are too many things like family, love, purpose in life and and and that I never want to lose!
@CallmeHeath "Walmart. I'd risk everything to go to Walmart. Or work. Or the movies. In fact, don't I risk everything every time I walk out my front door? If death removes us from all we have, and we might die at any time, then aren't we risking it all everyday? That's called living..."
I was thinking much the same thing. :)
eternity in heaven. who wouldn't?
i also wouldn't mind risking everything to FLY like the kiwi..or maybe not exactly like the kiwi... =)
I don't think that, at this point in my life, I'd be willing to risk everything (in any sense of the word). So my answer would simply be: nothing.
More stuff, or less stuff, or just the chance to get more stuff, or the chance to live with less stuff or possibly the realisation that it's not all about stuff.
I don't know.
Why are there programmes between the adverts again?
bunjee jumping!!!!!!!!!
or
sky diving!!!!!!
my mom and dad did that for there anniversery and they made a video it was
AWESOME!!!!!!
I think the experience of being near to God would be risking everything. I think I've had a taste, a mere morsel, and it leads me to thinking that nothing else matters personally. So I'd be willing to try service, i.e.getting off my butt to do something to make someone other than my self happy, whatever ... if that would do the trick.
@pspaulg JUMP! LOL!
@emilylives "and to teleport" LMAO!!!!
The majority of responses have involved love. I'm proud of everyone, right now! Love is the greatest power on earth!
But... isn't there always a but? : (
But I can't risk EVERYTHING because it's not all mine to risk and I have to think of other's first. I can't risk my family, not even for the chance at true love. My happiness comes second to the happiness and security of the people I love... and everyone else, too.
Honestly... To find my soul mate because in the end nothing and no one else will be there or matter.
If you follow your curiosity, then you're always risking everything -- or, at least, the status quo. That has been my experience.
To just be happy, truly happy.
and about the video, i wouldn't mind that as my answer either.
What I am doing now, pursuing a career choice that I feel 100% called to but at the same time I am terrified to try because I fear failing. I have moved my whole life around from school to friends to family in hopes that this pays off in the end. I am close to where I need to be but the closer I get to testing and interviewing the more I fear failing at what I know I am called to do. I am excited and nervous at the same time.
For a personal experience, I don't think I could risk my children and husband for anything. They're all I ever wanted. So I guess nothing.
I would risk it all to feel as if i were doing something important. I spend a lot of time feeling that whatever i'm doing isn't working towards anything or going anywhere. I want to travel the world, have super powers, use magic, and ride dinosaurs. Other than that, there is nothing that i want to do.
Walmart. I'd risk everything to go to Walmart. Or work. Or the movies. In fact, don't I risk everything every time I walk out my front door? If death removes us from all we have, and we might die at any time, then aren't we risking it all everyday? That's called living...
i would hosestly trade everything i have for a chance to be a champion for just one day. Better a lion for a day then a rabbit for hundred years.
To know that I'm here for a reason, and not have to float through life confused about that topic at every moment.
I think I would probably devote my life, give everything up if i thought doing so would, even incrementally, benefit everyone on earth forever.
I would risk everything to be in love. I have never said "I love you" to anyone but my Mom and brother and I want to have a successful loving relationship.
i dont think i have enough money to risk anything in my life right now
but... I'd risk a few dollars on a scratch ticket in hopes of winning big
@actingcoach9
Wanna hear something crazy? This was going to be my answer. Really specifically. (My husband and I are adopting, and I feel at this point that I would give anything to be a mother, yet know that I need to be my own full, true self to be a good parent.)
OK, that part isn't so crazy. Except... I'm a theatre teacher.
I would risk everything just to have an experience I believe in enough to risk everything for.
Wow, I'm sitting here on the couch, procrastinating, and watching Stepmom (which is good, I just don't need to be watching a movie right now)....and this was quite a wake up call. There are things I need not risk anything but maybe a little embarassment, a little discomfort, a little ache to have...to at least try to have. And I'm barely risking a little sun exposure....Well timed question and well played Soulpancake...I'm gonna go open up that novel I've been scared to go back to
To save the life of those I love. My husband and my pets.
To be a mom. But I will sure need most of what I have in order to be a good parent so risking "everything" might not be a good idea.
But since we are adopting, I know it will happen soon.
I would give up everything to be able to be fearless. I live with generalized anxiety, and for those of you who don't know what that is. I'm basically functional, however my mind is constantly set me up for worrying. About EVERYTHING..and if I was fearless...then I wouldn't need anything else. :)
the only thing I ever risked everything (well at least what at the time I thought was everything) for was self knowledge and self respect. Broke off a disastrous relationship, quit a well paying job, had a nervous breakdown, left my home and culture to break out of the cycle and started searching for what was true and good. No pain no gain. And I'm soooooooooooooooooo glad I did.
My initial response would be that I would risk everything to grow as close as I ever could to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, but my initial response is not what I believe to be an honest response. My rethinking would lead my heart to believe I would risk my everything for the saving of a life of a friend. Both of these responses I believe to be in my development as a being and spirit, but currently, in all honesty, I cannot say there is a single experience I would risk everything for. Does this mean my life is fulfilled or does it mean I don't necessarily have much I would risk it for? I believe I need something, someone, some experience I would risk it entirely for.
One experience that I would risk my life for is the one I am going through now. I risk my life everyday on the quest to attain that oneness, unity, and blissfulness with our great creator. I would do anything to be able to just be free of limitaion, free of fear to learn and create openely without fear of rejection and disapproval from naysayers. I just want to be... Isn't that why we're all here?
well, an experience i would risk everything for... would be an experience that means everything to me... hence, no loss.
or at least nothing of significant value.
I believe I would risk everything to know at the end of my days I would look back and feel that I made a difference and let my mark.
The only thing I think I've ever wanted badly enough that I would have risked everything for was to have a child. Fortunately this dream was fulfilled and there was no risk involved. But if there had been a risk to my health or my life, I think I would have taken it. The desire to be a mom was so powerful. I've been blessed with three wonderful sons who are now grown. They have fulfilled my life beyond anything I've ever hoped for and so I know that if I'd have had to risk everything to get to this point in my life, it would have been worth it. I can't think of anything else that would be. My family is everything!
I risked everything by coming out and living honestly; by loving someone with a history of suicide attempts; by fighting for living a life more untraditionally simple than traditionally prosperous.
And, I've lived with and worked to integrate the outcomes -- rejection by my kids, losing my loved one to suicide, living off the economic grid (i.e., in poverty).
Still learning as I go... no mystical, magical lessons to report.
Honestly, but it will seem hoaky.....I would give up or give anything to have my two gals get decent jobs in the future where they can have the comforts and BE over the top HAPPY with love, health and be able to make memories with the families they start whether that be one other person or kids involved, not rich or famous, not pay check to pay check and truly happy.
Really all I want is to perform on a stage with a crowd of around 50 people and have everyone know the words to me songs.
1. Meet my one true soulmate
2. Go to Hogwarts (yes im a nerd but it would be awesome)
3. Travel to a different galaxy and see it first-hand
4. Be able to do magic
I love this little video, it's so sad and so cute! I guess maybe I'd love to be passionate enough about something the way kiwi was.
Finish my novel, get published with a "real" publisher, get on Oprah's bookclup. Okay, the Oprah part is not necessary. I just want to get my message out and make enough to quit my day job.
that's tough question. i make the choice everyday to be a wife and mother. i was a music teacher and a singer before and now i have a family. i gave up everything for them. when my children are old enough for me to become a teacher or a singer again, i don't know if opportunities will be available. this is my dream life that i'm living. so if those external opportunities don't come, i'm grateful for the beautiful opportunities with my family.
Maybe I'm cheesy, but I just want the experience at the end of my life the knowledge that I've done a good job raising my family, and made a difference in a few peoples' lives along the way.
Oh wow, what a great little video. I'd risk everything to be with the one I love.
That's easy - work experience!
My line of work is difficult to get your foot into the door. It'd be nice to get that. Actually more than nice, I would pretty much move to the other side of the world for it.
1. Meeting Rainn Wilson
2. To be able to work with and study animals in Africa
3. Own my own dance company
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