Fortune Favours The Brave.

I put up post-it notes around with all sorts of messages on them, but they all reoccur and get used over again. One of the messages I like to use is "fortune favours the brave". If you put yourself out there and take the chances that can be taken then you're more likely to be fortunate, the more you put yourself out there and go for it.

Taking chances, in my opinion, is important. It helps you grow as a person, helps you find out who you truly are and what you're willing to take chances for.

This week, my first week of freedom, I watched two series of a TV programme that I didn't watch at the time but I wish I had. "Skins". Know it? The first two series are about 7 or 8 teenagers in their second year of A-levels (same as me) but instead they were having the time of their lives, living the dream, doing what they wanted, going wild, smoking, drinking, doing drugs, having sex, all sorts. All sorts that I wouldn't do because I know it to be wrong, to not be sensible, to be dangerous. I'd never have the nerve, I wouldn't want to disappoint my parents or anyone else, I'd be too scared because of all the bad side effects.
I want to go and have fun. Go and do the stuff that all the other teenagers in this country are doing that I don't seem to be.
In Skins, one of them gets left behind. Everyone in the group of friends passes their exams and go to uni or to do whatever they dreamed of doing except one who failed and his plans can't happen. Instead though, his best mate asks him to move to London with him and his boyfriend so that he doesn't get left behind.
I feel like I'm the one who's going to be left behind, even though my friends are staying here.

What does all this have to do with fortune favouring the brave? I have no idea. I guess if that's what I want to do then I suppose I've got to throw myself out there so that there is a chsnce it could happen to me. As the people in Skins would say, "Fuck it."

Fuck it. Take a chance. Because fortune favours the brave.


On the other hand, if you're too sensible for that, another message I put on my post it notes is:
"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow." ~ Mary Anne Radmacher.

Have a wonderful day. x