What Are The Odds You Ride A Bull?

Courage is the reason we try new things. You would not have your favorite job or hobby if you didn’t try it for the first time at some point, and you can’t try it if you don’t have the courage to do so. Almost every day we do or try things completely alien to us, no matter how small. It is important to do this in order to stay entertained and happy. Eventually doing the exact same thing you did yesterday will get boring, there’s no arguing about it. Everybody needs to spot out of their comfort zone at least a little in order to stay engaged with the world around them. One example of this can be found in Jasper Jones when Charlie kisses Eliza. “Eliza Wishart has kissed me. Is kissing me. Right here, beneath

Strayed had gone through quite a bit before deciding on taking a hiking trip on the Pacific Crest Trail. Strayed thought the Pacific Crest Trail would help her find who she was before her mother’s death. To illustrate, “I’d set out to hike the trail so I could reflect upon my life, to think about everything that had broken me and make myself whole again” (84). This hiking trip was her way to find the person she was before her mother died. After hiking for three weeks she noticed, “I am not afraid… I realized…I’d done to myself and all that had been done to me” (122). Having spent three week hiking up Strayed become aware of a change in herself, she began showing confidence in herself (122). Her confidence is practically oozing out of her by the end of her journey (310). She tries to pass her confidence on to another person who was considering going on a similar journey on the Pacific Crest Trail. She emphasized, ‘“You could. You should. Believe me, if I can do this, anybody can”’ (310). Strayed has truly understood who she is after hiking eleven hundred miles through gruesome and extreme environments. Now, she is an inspiration to those who have hit rock bottom and need to find

For some people, their idea of traveling is to get on the road to Dubuque. But for Cole Wickham, an active 10th grader at Anamosa High School, traveling includes seeing half of the United States, as well as Canada and Jamaica. Cole says he likes traveling because he gets to experience new things.

There was nothing more daring than being alone in a barren wasteland, without a cellphone, money, and even extra food supplies for the road. Chris McCandless, an extreme risk taker, believes that risk taking is necessary to outgrow the “shell” everyone is entrapped within because living on the edge allows characteristics to be built. Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild is a novel that reveals the adventure, journey, and risk taking of Chris McCandless, who is similar to Guy Montag, a protagonist in Fahrenheit 451, and Odysseus, also a protagonist in The Odyssey, who all feature a comparable attribute; that of which is risk taking. At the hand of these characters possessing courageous features believing that “it is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found,” arguably portraying that risk taking is what allows courageous features to become expressed freely (Krakauer, Into the Wild).

In addition to fostering creativity, risk-taking may help to increase daringness when it comes to new opportunities. In the article, “The Science—and Art—of Taking Risks”, the author states that “we evolved to experience and appraise physical and emotional danger in the same part of the brain (the limbic system).” People who don’t experience risks as a child are less likely to develop the ability that lets them discern emotional fear from physical danger. While this by no means says that a mother should throw her three-year-old into a burning building to diminish his fear of fire, sliding down a ten feet tall slide at a park could be the difference between being able to take a new job that involves flying across the ocean or declining because of

I was raised in a family who is constantly travelling. I am very fortunate to have lived and travelled around most of the world. I have been to Brazil, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Tahiti, Australia, New Zealand, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Tanzania, Canada and many places within the United States. I did not attend school till the first grade due to the fact

Why would a person ever hop on a 1,700-pound bull? Only crazy cowboys will. In a show called Fearless, which is a series on Netflix’s, the viewers get an up close look at bull riding. This show is about Brazilian’s bull riders and how they compete in Brazil as well in the United States at the Professional Bulling Riding events. Fearless focuses on the riders interactions and how the filmmakers present the riders career. They also focus on how tough these bull riders really are and the aggression it takes to keep riding the massive bulls week after week. They show that these male bull riders represent what men should value and how they are role models for the younger generation of men.

I love traveling and exploring new places as long as it is for free. Wild-land firefighters travel across the country. I know it is because of work, but you can visit tourist attractions in particular city/state in spare time.

Being the adventurous and outgoing person I am, I aspire to be daring. Anything that has an element of danger catches my eye. I cartwheel down the stairs; I vigorously dive into the formidable waves at Jones Beach; I am the only girl on the wrestling team.

Every day humans are faced with dangerous events or objects: natural disasters, athletics, animals, and even other people. To some extent, people cannot control their environment, but some people purposefully put themselves in dangerous situations for the thrill. “Nothing beats the feeling of just hanging on to a snorting pissed off bull”, states professional bull rider Garret Wall (Dean). What does it feel like to get thrown from an angry 1,500 LB bull? Why do cowboys willingly mount up and put themselves in obvious danger? Shane Procter, professional PBR bull rider, finds freedom in riding and the adrenaline that follows.

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I have been fortunate enough to have been given the opportunity to travel a handful of times now and having just got back from a three week trip to Iraq -I can assure you the experiences that traveling unfolds are life changing!

A person must always choose between living their life accustomed to settling for less or actually living their lives the way they want to. We suffer from the fear of missing out on life experiences and in the end all we really want is to be happy of the life we chose to live. The willingness to take an adventure can range for example someone quitting their job that they hate and going after for the job they actually want. A second type of adventure can be a little bigger than that like actually having the ambition of finishing school and reaching the profession that you aspired to have in your life. Lastly an adventure can go as far as moving out of a small town and into the city where no one knows who you are and the adventure of your

Being adventurous is how you start to understand who you really are. Many people believe it is dangerous to travel, not worth it. But I believe, the world is dangerous. There are shootings everyday but getting out there and risking it is just living. Being adventurous shows you how others have to live, what so many people deal with every day. Or what so many people get to see every day, the beautiful yet cruel world we live in. There is a purpose for everything here, it is meant to be seen. We are not here to work everyday and then go home to rest and do it all over again, we were made to make a difference and to understand the world. Mountains were made to climb, oceans were made to be seen, and landmarks were too, “in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a

After working for 3 years, I was burnt out at work and wanted to rediscover myself and I could only think of travelling. But I always had this feeling that something is wrong. Neither I’d the money nor intention of wanderlust. I was just lost or maybe I want freedom of expression without being ending up in jail. I don’t know it yet. But one thing was sure and that was: I want to experience the world through the eyes of others. Living the lives of others or living with them provides you a window to enter their lives. I have always believed that travel breaks you free. My mind was conditioned to travel. I had changed almost a dozen schools by the time I completed my graduation. Oh boy!