Dessa - Fire Drills


Phrases I dislike include "gentle reminder," "how are you," and "ask" used as a noun. None of em grind my gears like "stay safe." Yeah, I know it's never meant maliciously - quite the opposite. But how is anybody supposed to live inside the boundaries of safeness?

One of the assessments that my kindergarten teacher made was that, although I was great at reading and writing and numbers, I needed to learn to take risks. That is something that does not come naturally to me. Being safe is easy. Taking risks is hard. But staying absolutely safe would mean I never climbed an 80 foot tree, whizzed down a county road on a bicycle at top speed a hundred kilometers from home, or met some of my best friends. 

Rather than wishing for someone to "be safe", I'd rather wish them a life full of risks worth taking.