'Jump Or Die'

Decisions, can be minor like buying a set lunch or as significant as voting for your president. By definition, the word means a choice or judgement that one makes after a period of discussion or thought. And it always involves a struggle in our inner selves.

From the article, Murray had in mind already, to leave the marked route and was determined to go off-piste. I surmised that his primitive self would have warned him of the risk he was going to face. But the sports all-rounder he himself, must have been self-assertive, thinking that he could “trash” this mountain just like all his other past adventure. He probably went up the mountain with ostentation in his heart.

In my opinion, doing something you know is dangerous and should not be doing is an act of foolishness. I am not saying that jumping down a cliff for a chance of survival is absurd. Instead, I feel that Murray’s first intention to step into the unmarked route was the root of this peril. Sometimes in life, we face crossroads where we are stuck between taking the morally right turn or the selfishly desired turns. So I extrapolate that at the point, Murray have succumbed to temptation and chose the route that almost took his life.

Although to err is human, we should never neglect thinking twice before we act. It is better to sacrifice our wants than to be guilt-ridden for the rest of our lives and avert the consequences of our moments of folly. On the other hand, there are people who are well aware of the disastrous consequences yet they chose to stick with their choice. These are the diehard people in life. Diehard people always choose to take what many calls the “hard way”, where they taste the austerity instead of avoiding it. Just like Murray, since his close shave with death, I think now he cherishes his life more than he did in the past. And will abstain from activities that will risk his life again. For I know, he had really got the meaning of,“ Once bitten, twice shy.”