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If you had the guts/courage to do all the risky things, what would you do?

Asked by deepdivercwa55m (353points) October 9th, 2009

There are moments I hear people say “I wish I had the courage, and I would have done that and that”
There are many things we don’t do because we are scared..
So if you were “crazy” enough to do everything risky you wanted what would you do??

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marinelife's avatar

Downhill skiing.

CMaz's avatar

For me it is not about courage. It is about money. The cost of doing those “risky” things.
There is nothing I would not do.

Except cave diving. :-) That is just nuts!

deepdivercwa55m's avatar

it doesn’t need much to make a porn! Believe me

JONESGH's avatar

I agree with @ChazMaz, it’s about money. I’d love to try skydiving, but I just don’t have the extra money.

MissAnthrope's avatar

The only things I can think of that I don’t have the balls to do that I might want to do is bungee jumping or sky diving. I can think of things I’d be too scared to do, but I honestly have no desire to do those things.

I’ve been called ballsy before, and honestly, not too many things scare me. Plus, I think it feels amazing to conquer a new thing, especially if it’s scary.

@Marina – I learned to downhill ski earlier this year. I was kind of petrified and really scared of the lifts (I always said that was the number one reason I would never downhill ski). After 3½ days of.. well.. kind of nerve-wracking hell, I came out the other side and had conquered the lifts and was able to go down hills by myself without falling (if you’d seen me in the first three days, you wouldn’t have thought that possible). I really had to fight fear and self-doubt, but in the end, I was the master of those things and it felt awesome!

markyy's avatar

Jumping of a bridge is easy. I wish I had the balls to approach a nice girl and say: Hi my name is Mark, what’s yours?

Sabotage82's avatar

@dimitris Be a little more specific if you please. Maybe I’ll take your advise. : )

CMaz's avatar

Sky Diving is easy. Looks scary. But very nice. :-)

Actually almost a boring sport.

deepdivercwa55m's avatar

@Sabotage82 you just need a good video camera a blond girl (lol) good lighting an LOTS of vodka!!!!

Sabotage82's avatar

@dimitris Well the camera and the blonde I have. Lmao!!!

Cartman's avatar

Loads of drugs

jonsblond's avatar

I’m another that agrees with @ChazMaz. It’s about the money for me too. I would love to travel to Antarctica if I had the funds. @Les is a lucky and courageous woman!

deepdivercwa55m's avatar

c’mon how expensive can they be???

jonsblond's avatar

@dimitris When you live paycheck to paycheck everything is expensive.

deni's avatar

@ChazMaz cave diving OOH. i want to do that before i die.

i also agree though – its about money. i’m dying to go sky diving, but its a few hundred dollars around here. if i had the spare money to blow on that, i’d be up there in a heartbeat. along with doing a few other things…oh well, someday when i strike gold in the mine, i shall ;)

deepdivercwa55m's avatar

Good luck with that!!!

MissAnthrope's avatar

@markyy – Now that you mention it, me too. :\

markyy's avatar

@MissAnthrope Really? You’re name is Mark to? ~

DarkScribe's avatar

Look inside my wife’s handbag. She will say “Will you get so and so – it is in my handbag”. I’ll say “uh, uh, I am not going in there – it scares me”.

deni's avatar

@DarkScribe Hahahahahaha

zephyr826's avatar

Be completely honest. Not to be mean, but there are so many times that I don’t speak out because I’m scared, and I really need to do so.

deni's avatar

@zephyr826 thats a great one. i wish i could be extremely open/honest with people. its much harder (for me at least) than it should be.

Sabotage82's avatar

@zephyr826 Heres your chance. Lets hear it.

Lightlyseared's avatar

Nothing. I get enough of a kick out of the things I already have the balls to do.

MissAnthrope's avatar

@markyy – Haha, no, I am female and not named Mark. I meant your general sentiment of being able to approach girls.

gottamakeart's avatar

I’d probably be a professional ArT Model as a side gig, but the Nudity+Strangers+flouresent lighting equation puts me off. I need a degree of familiarity and control.

Sabotage82's avatar

On the darker side of this question. I find myself thinking if I had a little more courage, or lack of sanity, I would do some physical damage to some folks.

noodle_poodle's avatar

stripping, busking, climbing buildings, sell everything I own and just head off in a random direction to travel alone

deni's avatar

Get rid of my cell phone. Haha, what a sad thing to say. But its true.

Facade's avatar

Courage isn’t stopping me from doing the things I want to do, money is. I’m a pretty courageous person :)

DominicX's avatar

Dunno. The things I’m afraid of doing aren’t really anything I’d want to do. I’m afraid of doing drugs beyond alcohol, but I have no desire to do it. Don’t want to skydive or anything like that either. I guess if I had more courage, I would take a dance class of some sort, but that’s not risky.

CMaz's avatar

“I would take a dance class of some sort, but that’s not risky.”

You could twist your ankle. :-)

zephyr826's avatar

@Sabotage82, alas, I don’t have the guts yet. But thanks for the support.

hungryhungryhortence's avatar

If? I’ve been doing pretty much all I have ever wanted without jeopardizing my health completely. Skydiving is on the bucket list and maybe piloting a helicopter or small planes, definitely motorcycles and cars across the desert flats at super high speeds. Not much frightens me aside from people.

deepdivercwa55m's avatar

am 16 and killed a shark at spearfishing. Does anyone has the ball for this???

Blondesjon's avatar

I would start ripping all of the tags off of every mattress I could find.

Saturated_Brain's avatar

I would have gone to say hi to the girl who was curled up into a ball on the floor of the train station. I would have asked her whether she was fine and whether there was anything I could’ve done to help her.

aprilsimnel's avatar

I’d go on a space flight.

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