And anyone who obsesses over risk too much will have a life not worth living, which—compared to the risk of injury from mundane activities—is the greater risk.
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away.” That’s perhaps a slight exaggeration, a long life of small pleasures would compare favorably to a shorter life filled with ecstatic experiences, but the point is that a warm breathing body does not a life make.
And anyone who obsesses over risk too much will have a life not worth living, which—compared to the risk of injury from mundane activities—is the greater risk.
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away.” That’s perhaps a slight exaggeration, a long life of small pleasures would compare favorably to a shorter life filled with ecstatic experiences, but the point is that a warm breathing body does not a life make.
People’s actions reveal that they do not measure life this way.