There are times when things don't go our way. Things can and will go wrong, and we will be hurt and upset by the results. This fact is present in everyone's life, it pervades every area of life, and there's nothing we can do to change that.

Many people are daunted by the idea that their plans won't work. They fear failure and lose their nerve. Some simply don't like taking risks out of not wanting to leave anything up to chance. Is this the right? No.

For as long as any living being has had the capacity to think and weigh their options, there have always been those who would see the danger in their choices and go with the safer path, and there have been those who saw the same risks but took their chances with danger.

Living with no sense of danger or adventure is no way to live at all. It's through risk and taking a leap of faith that one can truely feel what it is to be alive.

When a person does something dangerous knowing full well they could end up in a bad place, it's with the faith and hope that when and if they succeed their risktaking will have been worthwhile be it out of the feeling they get or the rewards they reap.

When I set up a trap for someone to fall into, I know it could literally blow up in my face.
When I frame someone for something I did, I do it knowing I could end up looking insane.
When I build a mannequin to scare someone with an exploding head or torn limbs, I know I could end up looking like a sociopath covered in fake brain matter.
And when I set up a Rube Goldberg machine meant to distract people from noticing they're about to get hit with something very unpleasent, I know I could very well be facing physical retaliation.

Things do go wrong. Sometimes everything goes wrong, but I keep up. Why? Because it's fun. Because when I succeed it makes it all worthwhile, and nothing can ever change that.

I hope you can all have enough faith and confidence in yourselves to run the same risks I do.

Thanks for reading.