Adrenal Response.

Have you ever heard the saying...
"No man who has lived a life of simple security ever gets remembered, except as a statistic..."

Well, if you haven't before. You have now.
It really does fire some nuerons, in terms of how to live your life.

Think back to when you were a kid. Most of the time, you were completely oblivious to your surroundings. The only thing you cared about for the most part was, what was in front of you and what you could do with it. You were young enough to be programmed into being a safe responsible adult. (Now, I'm obviously excluding the outliers. Child Prodigies, Over Achievers, Criminal Minds.) [While this thought seems irrelevant. We'll revisit this later.]

Each person takes their own risks daily. They go through their day, and thousands of times will encounter danger of death or injury. Not tempting those dangers, but passing through them as lightly as possible. As Underoath so well put, It's Dangerous Bussiness Walking Out Your Front Door. And it is, more then some people realize. Chance, probability and all of the realtion to those. They are all based on the choices you make. You can put yourself in the higher probability table for accident and death with a simple solitary action.

As a child, you weren't aware of such things. You lived and you played. Life was bliss, mostly based on your ignorance or innocence. Which ever you prefer to call it. Death was all around you, but you were more then happy to stare it in the face. Even if it was invisible, you did it.

Adults have this fear of death that is scary. They are fully aware of it, have probably watched it take action more then enough times during their lifetime to be afraid of it. To lose that which is most valuble, to most people at least.

So what do you call it when adults deliberately put themselves at risk of death?
The ones that stare death in the face, with intelligent minds and awareness are the ones that come out alive and well. The other ones, the remainder who do not tempt death. Or choose to face it stupidly and without sense. Are the ones that die with less feeling.

It is said that people who tempt death are stupid.
I supremely disagree. Those people are most alive, because they are at their peak.
They are no longer innocent, and still face it with utmost consideration.

As a child I tempted death more times then I can remember. Both innocently and not.
As I live on and grow older. I tempt death with even more care, but at the same time more probability on the opposite side.
Call me whatever you want.

They say that luck will always catch up to you.
Well I guess it's better not to rely on that huh.