This is our Decision to Live Fast and Die Young

like really, "live fast and die young" is the way the go.

From the moment we are born, we are constantly approaching death. It sounds grim doesn't it? Not to get too distracted here but...

During my time playing competitive magic I've learned a lot about life. In magic for every strategy their is a counter. People will put cards in their decks in order to beat your deck. In response you can do three things: change decks, counteract their counters, or ignore them and make other elements of your deck stronger. Often times people will fight strategies using ineffective methods, they try to directly fight what they see as the obvious solution. The best solution to most strategies usually involve creative thinking.
End Aside

We are faced with death on every front from the time we are born. Disease, Violence, Natural Disasters, shit hitting a fan (to reference Airplane), the list is endless. I once theorized that every physical object could be used to end life. (Wipe Cream is scary!!!) So when faced with these problems we learn to protect are selves. Death is one deck, we are the other. We see death playing lots of cards that kill us, so in turn we add lots of cards to protect ourselves. In the end we end of with a deck that can never win but instead can only survive. Unforntately death has this one card called "time" that will kill anything that lives for a long time. This directly parallels real life. Death is stronger than any amount of protein shakes, vitamins, workouts, or anti-aging chemicals. While flood insurance will help you rebuild after disasters, death will kill you eventually. You can't beat death.

If i concluded my article here, things would feel very grim, wouldn't they? The good news is that this new knowledge can be used to make you happier (YAY!). Because the risk of death is 100%, every thing that can kill you isn't actaully going to end you life, as you were fated to die anyways.

Risk and reward generally scales in a direct relationship, as as the risk of death of already 100%, their is nothing in this world but rewards. Lets say you enjoy painting, but you could also make a reasonable living computing numbers for some business or another. As a painter you're unlikely to make very much money at all, with a small chance of becoming enormously famous. (Think Banksy, modern day artist who brought street art to the public eye. His paintings sell for a couple hundred thousand. He could piss on a piece of paper and sell the thing for atleast $50,00) As business person who doesn't ever do anything fun except buy new a house, and they realize that life is out to get you, as the bank forecloses it later. The painter is the riskier profession because you likely not be able to make much money, starve and die, but that was already going to happen, eventually as i proved earlier. Let me demonstrate another example, owing a business. This is actually the perfect situation to showcase Risk-Reward relationships. The simple explanation of owning a business is often "All the profits with all the risk". This is exactly what you need to do with you life, I think everyone should try to own a business. We always hear about these crazy success stories like the people who invent Facebook and Google, now millionaires. "But really, is everyone going to be that successful?". No of course not, just make sure to invest everything into making it a success. If your business crashes, you die, but so what?!?! Like it's not that you've lost something you weren't already going to loss anyways. Think Romeo-Juliet type commitment. I'm one hundred percent serious about the dieing part. Think about the possible outcomes:
1. Crazy success, the ability to do whatever else you want to do with your life.
2. Moderate success, that good feeling you get from owning success.
3. Failure and starvation, I hear heaven is actually a really nice place.

None of those are bad!!
So in conclusion, take risks because once the risk of death exceeds 100% you have nothing to loss.
You have nothing to loss from the day your born. Never shoot for a moderate living. Shoot for the ridiculous.