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We All Need To Be A Little Reckless

Being reckless is like having a near-death adventure just to feel alive again.

Shelby St. Pierre
Sep 20, 2016
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You know you have urges to be reckless sometimes. I am not the only one. I get bored with the boring, little life. I like to make risky decisions when I am with friends. I almost think it is a part of our nature as humans.

It will be a school night super late or really early in the morning when I just want to go do something reckless. I want to feel human. I want to disappoint myself. You may think this is odd. But there are moments when I feel like I am not even in this world, it is like I am in a movie. That is when I want to do something crazy for no reason.

I will want to go 100 miles in a car. I will want to climb up the side of a cave with no harness. I will want to drink so much that I won’t even be able to handle it. I will want to just forget about my boring, yet complicated life that I am living.

It could be that I am so extremely stressed that I just want to leave this place and go to a new one. But I want to go there very quickly, and I don’t even have to drive. I want things to be visibly out of my control.

I feel like I need to experience near-death before I can truly feel alive, even if it just for a moment.

Sometimes it isn’t even recklessness; it is an adventure. Like when I climbed to the top of a mountain, I was on the peak of a freaking mountain. When I was up there, I felt alive again. I had energy; I had breath; I had life. I looked straight down from the top of that windy mountain and had no fear. I saw just adventurous new experiences. If I wanted to, I could jump or fall. However, I felt like I just needed to embrace feeling alive.

Being reckless is like having a near-death adventure to feel alive again.

I know you have had small feelings of recklessness. So small it was probably like I am going to call in sick to work, or I am going to go to a sketchy part of town, or I am going to not do this assignment and get wasted. They may seem simple, especially for some college students.

Recklessness is why we humans love to go on roller-coasters! We love to be out of control and go fast! It is a thrill. It is an adventure. It is life.

I mean we do only live once. And sometimes we get stuck in ruts of the same old, boring routine. We need to do reckless things and go on some crazy adventures to get out of it.

So, my advice to you is to get out there! Go on your next adventure!

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