Well it's normal to want to take fewer risks as you get older.
I'm a defensive pessimist so I don't take many risks, though I think I'm learning to stick my neck out a bit more as long as it looks like a reasonable risk. I like the term "reasonable risk." Sometimes it's hard to calculate, but I usually start by considering what would happen if it went wrong. I'm often surprised when I do that because I often find it wouldn't be as bad as I'd feared it might be before I thought about it.
I can be a tad reckless here and there but I think that's just a bit of impulsiveness built into my nature, I don't really know it's a risk when I'm taking it.
I wouldn't do a dangerous job unless the rewards were appropriate and it wouldn't become a way of life.
I don't think I take athletic risks these days. When I was younger I probably did. I used to climb up into high places, but these days I'm scared of heights. I went to the top of the Laxey Wheel in the Isle Of Man when I was 52, I only just made it up the stairs. If it hadn't been for the thought of being able to take a bit of camcorder footage from the top, I don't think I'd have dared. But I absolutely don't want any sports injuries through pushing my body too far.
I've climbed into the loft a few times using a rickety stepladder and had to stand on the top bar, which is a handle rather than an actual tread, so I suppose that was risky. But I needed to get into the loft because that's where I keep a lot of my stuff. Eventually I had a near miss and hurt my shoulder slightly, so after that I got a longer stepladder. It's still a bit risky but not as bad as it used to be.
I used to ignore the fire alarms at work if I'd got important work to do or if the weather was too cold to stand about outside.
The only "financial risk" I remember was to invest about £20,000 in a fairly big American company as a fixed term high-interest deposit. It all worked out, but it was a lot of money to trust a foreign company with and I didn't get anybody else to assess the risk.
When you think about it, you take small risks all the time. Every time you go outside, especially if you ride in vehicles or cross the road. There's plane rides, boat rides, cycling, none of them are completely risk-free. As an atheist I'm risking an eternity in hell according to some people, but I don't suppose that's exactly a risk because I have no choice about whether or not I believe in Jesus and all that lot.
I smoked tobacco for decades.
I don't take many risks socially and emotionally. It's very rare that I've even done anything proactive about starting friendships and romantic relationships. I suspect that's because I don't want to get pushed away, but it might just be that I'm not socially very forward. I don't often risk letting people borrow or use my possessions unless I can replace them or just don't much care what happens to them. But I've put myself out there when I want to perform live music, and I've played some of my recordings to people. I usually try quite hard not to risk upsetting people unless they're really annoying me.
I don't think I've regretted many of the risks I've taken. I regretted crossing the road when I couldn't see it properly and ended up with a broken leg, when I was 16, but I wasn't very aware of the risk at the time, though I suppose I should have been.
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