Nature favors those who are sober, alert, intelligent and enthusiastic, most of all those who have the courage to take risks and who possess the will if not the ability to succeed. She smiles on those who are ready to live hard and dangerously. Whoever refuses to take risks, pays the penalty of loss of life in one form or another.
There are many ways to die, living a half life in the safety of security is an agonisingly slow and sad way to go. Better to take a chance on living a full life, beyond the bindings of security.