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Two artists, four young people, 100 images distributed across a city, one question: 'Think of an occasion when you took a risk. What was that risk?'
45 comments:
I started a weblog to write about my work as a humanist funeral celebrant.
I told my friend I loved him.
Risk on Life.
Walked on a deserted beach in Kenya despite being told it might be dangerous. Wanted to do this because it was beautiful.
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Building a wall.
When I left a school I had worked in for 15 years and joined a more challenging one. My next adventure begins!
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Leaving a well paid secure position to enter education.
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When I risk telling my innermost fears to that one person I call 'friend'. Trusting others can be so hard.
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Going to school
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I try to take at least one (well-calculated) risk every day. My favourite ever risk was turning up to my job interview in fancy dress.
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Getting married
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deciding whether or not to keep my pregnancy. i chose to have the baby. the risk paid off. he's great.
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Crossing the safety rope to walk across a lava flow.
Is something only a risk when you percieve that you have something to loose, think that things could go wrong, that there might be danger.........
or is it when you don't know what the outcome will be...
I'm finding it hard to think of a specific time when i took a risk.....
is that because I just play it safe all the time or is it beacuse I do new things everyday but do not worry about the outcome/potentail danger so I don't see it as a risk, just as an opportunity?
I'm staggeringly rash and careless. I do dangerous things all the time; I'm too lazy to stop, think, prepare.
I estimate that I should be long-dead by now, from electrocution or standing on rickety chairs or climbing trees or walking through dangerous places.
I suppose these actions could be called 'risky,' but doesn't risk involve some sort of calculation? In which case my 'risks' are largely unconscious until I'm told off. I'm nearly thirty and I continue to act like a childish moron.
Overly risk-averse people frustrate me - not because of some sort of sentimental 'lust for life,' but because they get things done slowly, with too much deliberation and too much talk. I could never work for local government.
I'm risking the wrath of my IT department by sending this post.
Damn you killjoys.
I left my home my friends and my business to start a new life.
I took a risk leaving my old job where I was really happy & comfortable for a new one which is much less secure & more challenging - but all the better because of that!
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11 years ago I moved from London to Uttoxeter to live with a man.
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While travelling in Hong Kong I met a guy who invited me to meet his family. I followed him until I was well lost and we got to a tiny flat. He could have a gang waiting to mug me but I chanced it and followed him in. It turned out he wanted me to meet his uncle, a casino croupier, so I could help with a dodgy betting scam. I made polite excuses and headed off.
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Going to school.
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I went to South Africa on my own for 3 months. It was a risky adventure!
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Pulling a stunt on my mountain bike.
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Gave up a nice safe job in a bank in 1975 to try to become an actor and haven't looked back!
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agreeing to do a presentation for other teachers - and organising video clips of children to show.
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Going to live in France for a year and a half.
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Arrest a violent drunken offender. He had a weapon. Risky!
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moving cities to live with my boyfriend when I'd only known him 3 months! I didn't know anyone else but it all worked out - been together 10 years now.
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Someone I know reckons leaving party town melbourne to live with me in Stoke was a risk, she's my wife now.
I take a risk everyday, when I wake up.
Moving back to Stoke -> even though I had no job at the time and there are better places for artists to live. (perhaps).
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Getting married and then buying my wife a toaster for our tenth anniversary
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Passenger on the back of a Honda Goldwing for the first time.
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The other day (having missed a bus) I walked along a busy main road for several miles and accepted a lift from a lorry after it had narrowly avoided hitting me
Image #25 postcard returned with no name and no comment.
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Running with bulls in Pamplona.
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Leaving my old job
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When I left my steady and regular job with good money and went to university. A big risk!
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i left my husband for another man.
i knew full well - that the other man was married...and wasn't leaving his wife.
but i believe
love is an action word.
and
that settling...
is never the better thing to teach our children.
my son and i are happier than we ever were before.
and i don't regret it.
even though...
i am alone now.
Telling a teacher what I really thought of them and their attitude
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Driving my car
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When I learnt to rock climb, the risk I took was falling off and failing.
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I took a number of risks while being an active drug addict, including sharing needles and equipment, and it is only pure luck that I have survived.
However, on the flipside, I took a risk by leaving my comfort zone, and old associates, and going to college, and then on to university, which proved a good move, opening doors and improving the quality of my peer group.
In conclusion, risk-taking is part of life, whether the risk is positive or negative. However, I think that a life without risk is perhaps the worst option of all.
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Just to remind everyone, it's Children In Need day today. Dig deep and donate. Look out for pop up stands and cardboard cut-outs on the show (we made them)
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