Choose your own adventure

It´s like reading a classic CYOA book. You begin the novel with all the opportunities imaginable, right at your fingertips.
Do you go with instinct, safety, greed?
Each decision you make has a significant consequence, and all lead to a new direction in your travels (or life). Each opens up new opportunity and possibilities.

I have come to the end of the chapter where I now choose my own, and next, adventure.

Choice A: I could continue my original plans-- go to Utila, Honduras (the Bay Islands) and complete my dive-master course for the next 2 months. This is no specific plan or outcome upon finishing, and I don´t know where it will lead me next. Although, as part of all ¨choose your own adventure¨books, you never really know what´s ahead.
A majority of the time, playing it safe in Choose Your Own Adventure never brings you to the lions den, you never get robbed, thrown into the eye of a hurricane, or break your leg. However, you also never have much thrill. The kids who play the safe route in CYOA books always end up somewhat bored and unattached. Not that taking my divemaster is boring, but it is following the ordinary plan. The intended route. Not deviating from the schedule.

or I could go with Choice B: Take a leap of faith and chance it. Put a kebosh on my Honduras plans and go home early. Try something totally new and perhaps risky. Not dangerous, but certainly different. There is only one way to move on from the constant normalcy of life, you have to take chances. You take risks with hopes that they will pay off. The kids who enjoy CYOA books the most where the kids who were living in the now. They weren´t thinking the rationality of the future, they were taking each opportunity as it came.

Choice B is certaintly the bigger gamble. Higher risk. However, high risk pays off high reward, if you hit the pot. It could go sour and you can lose drastically as well. But isn´t it better to try and fail, than to fail to try?

Solution? In this case, take the risk. When normally siding with safety and taking a sure bet, the risk can often be worth it. Without taking a chance you never have the opportunity to win big. Who wants to sit around with mediocrity and no spark forever? Settling with average is no way to live.

We now choose choice B. Take the risky option that looks like fun and has potential for rewards.

It looks like I´m going to the land of Oz.