Better Sorry than Safe

Advice #6

So, who here likes the saying "Better safe than sorry"?
Well, let me give you a little info about that.

This saying is an excuse. 
When you're about to do something exciting. Like, for instance, in my English class we've been given the opportunity to do something called Poetry Out Loud, which is where you memorize a poem from their poem list and then recite it in front of the whole school. My friend wanted to join, but she told me "Well, better safe than sorry. I'm not gonna do it."

But my question is why not?

So, life is about living, right? So why in the world would you give yourself a decent excuse not to live life? Everything is just more experience, one more accomplishment, one more story to tell your grandkids "Yes ma'am, I did that."

So why would anybody say "Better safe than sorry"?

Playing life on the safe side is equivalent to staying indoors your whole life. Life is about experiencing, trying new things, living for crying out loud. You were born to do something great, but you're so scared of something going wrong that you end up not doing something that could be the greatest experience of your life?

So, my advice to you, would be to change that saying. Change it so instead of better safe than sorry, it's

Better sorry than safe. 

Do Poetry Out Loud. Audition for your talent show. Ask out your love. Jump off of a cliff into the ocean. Ride in the back of a pickup while your friends drive full speed. Take any and all opportunities presented to you. Make that joke in class. Send that risky text. If something goes wrong, it doesn't matter. Just doing it is an immense accomplishment that will make up for any mistakes you make for doing so.*

Because in life, if you do something and it ends up going wrong, you can at least look back on it and say,

"At least I had the courage to do something."

And that's a rarity these days.

I'm sorry. This has been more of a rant than anything, but I really want to make my point clear. Life is about making mistakes, and in all honesty, yes, being sorry is much better than being safe. Just as I tell myself and my friends, It's just more experience, and life experience never really hurt anyone, now did it?

Stay daring.♥

-Evie

*Please don't take this as an excuse to go do drugs and get laid. This is not the context it is meant in...this isn't yolo