There is no doubt that I have annoyed everyone who knows me with repeated quotes from the movie "Tommy Boy" starring my favourite actor of all time: Chris Farley. At one point he is trying to sell brake pads to a dealership and the guy who might buy them keeps hesitating because the box that contains the brake pads aren't stamped with a guarantee of some sort. Farley makes a point that a guarantee is nothing but that: a stamp. He says to the man, "If you'd like, I can take a shit in a box and stamp a guarantee on it but at the end of the day all it would be is a guaranteed box of shit."
There is very little in this life that is guaranteed and people who have lost much are the ones who will nod their heads most fiercely to this statement. In a split second we can go from plenty to pathetic. Married to divorced. Life to death. Paradise to devastation. Words are empty without the accompanying actions. The only way to know if our risks are worth it is by taking that step of faith and choosing to put the brake pads on, and hoping for the best. Have faith, choose love, put the brake pads on and drive. If we don't, we will be sitting cross-legged on the cold garage floor for all eternity holding a box filled with what we are convinced of is shit.
Imagine all of the things we would miss out on if we never left the garage floor.
"He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being." -Paul Tillich
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