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Life Lesson #6: Don’t Risk Your Life For a Thrill


 
See Also:
Life Lesson #2 – Making Choices is Important
Life Lesson #16 – Avoid Fads
Life Lesson #33 – Don’t Limit Your Options
The Chuck Norris Story

 

When I was growing up, our town had a popular street that seemed to be made just for air-headed young people like us. Thrill Hill we called it, and one night, I let my friends Mike and Dennis talk me into giving it a try. I had a fast car with 7.2 liters of muscle under the hood, and I was always ready to show it off. I was very, very lucky. A while later, Dennis made a similar run.

Dennis and I used to talk a lot. We talked about the kinds of careers we wanted to have—about finding someone to marry—about taking our sons fishing.

But Dennis is dead. He never realized any of those dreams. You see, he became a victim of his own lack of common sense. When we were teens, just like today, common sense was not really all that common.

Listen, don’t take chances with your life or your health for a cheap thrill. It’s not worth it. It’s just not worth it.

– Jim Lord