Have you ever heard of Russian roulette? Russian roulette is a wicked game (usually a drinking game) to “test one’s bravery.” If you’re lucky, nothing will happen and you get to live to see another day. If you aren’t you move immediately to the afterlife. (I’m not sure what happens if you chicken out, but most likely it’s fatal.)
Let me be clear– I’ve never played that game, nor would I ever play it. But have I taken stupid chances? Have I played Russian roulette with thoughtless decision-making? You’d better believe I have– especially when I was young and “invincible.” What comes to my mind is a series of events that occurred during a camping trip with four teenaged friends– at a place in the Talladega National Forest we simply called “The Train Tunnel.”
