Daily Dose of Anecdote

So pretend you are a character in a video game (mario bros, call of duty, pretty princess, ugly prince, whatever). You have reached the end of the beginning of your journey and you are at two crossroads. One: is full of uncertainty and perhaps if you have good luck, you shall get the next coin or glass slipper or power sword, or you may meet your worst enemy--the poisonous apple, "bad guys", a sleeping dragon, you know.The other is a path of safety that will keep on you waiting indefinitely, stuck at: game loading-99%. So the question is how to customize your game avatar to look as attractive as you are not but, rather, which fork in the road do you choose: one of adventure or assurance?

How about try to save your game data first so in case you fail with taking the risk of the adventure route, you can start again, right? But if your game card data is full, I think you might as well take the chance--and "spread your wings" but first remember to cultivate some wings with feather hormone injections (im pretty sure they sell those right?). But if your feathers fail you, I guess you can always start the game over.

But in real life, there are no do overs, no back-up memory card. We are perpetually going in one direction: forward. So really, which one to pick? Which dirt or pebbled path will get pretty princess safely to the ball (with not one strand of hair out of place) and which one will lead the prince to the princess, who is at the ball, by the way.