The Art of Gamble

This writing is started by a single line I've made on twitter: 

"When you don't know what to do because you've already known how much the damage you'll have if you make a wrong step. Back off or die trying?" 

Okay, I'm sure this is a point that happens severally in everyone's life. Got a mixed feeling and thought that I have to handle well in order to make a right step. Don't know what to do, but I know, I have to make a move, right or wrong. Gotta called it a stake which is better than keep on the chaos of going nowhere. 

So what I'm gonna do? Call a friend? Toss a coin? No, this is my life, everything that is in my hand, is the thing that I have to decide by myself. Because I'm the one who will be responsible of all the risks yet gain the results as the aftermath. 

Some people will say, the brave one is the one who die trying. But I say, that there's a slightly difference between brave and stupid. If it's a war, I must have a strategy. Even Sun Tzu wrote The Art of War. So I think it will be smarter if I have a reason to fight and also have calculated the risk. The big point is not whether my step is right or wrong, but that I have no regret about the step that I've made. 

So this is what I'm gonna do, start with make a list about the get-some-lose-some's list, or maybe a SWOT matrix (yeah, please). But the point is to make sure the thing that I have to fight is worthed to be died fighting. 

The question is: how can I make it sure? Well, I don't know this part actually, hehe. Because everything has its own way to be sured of. I don't know, I don't know, all I know is just be honest with myself. Starting with try to live my life without that thing, might be tried. Because usually you could know what the value of something when it's gone. 

So, the conclusion is choose whatever I think I can't live without this thing more than the other thing. 

Go die trying if you think the reason is worthed. And don't forget, back off means you have something more valuable to keep than the object of your pursuit. It might be people you loved, your self esteem, your own shine, your happiness on your own, your next opened door. And most of all, your time to spend on the more important things in your life. 

In the end, be brave to make a move, either it's a back off or a die trying. And before that, make sure that you have already calculated the aftermath and ready to take all the results. Even the results might be miscalculated, take that as a life's surprise. Bad or good, life's happens. That's the Art of Gamble. 

The rest is don't be affraid. As Harper Lee said in To Kill A Mockingbird: real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you BEGIN ANYWAY and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes YOU DO. 

Have a little FAITH. Have a STRONG heart.
Do what the best for you, and SURELY without harming anyone. 

Ciao.

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