My climbing partner and I have been pushing each other to attempt harder routes, but after watching a mutual friend get seriously injured last month, we're both questioning whether we're being appropriately cautious or letting fear kill the thing we love most. Neither of us wants to be the one who suggests backing down, but neither of us wants to be the one who pushes the other into danger.
More people experience this than they realize.
Witnessing others pay the price for risks we regularly take forces a reckoning with whether courage and recklessness are as different as we'd like to believe.
“Where Are You with Risk-taking — philosophy and psychology?”
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