People who look for excitement anddanger are foolish. pdf

People who look for excitement and
danger are foolish. Do you agree?

The answer to the proposition can be a big “No” though
there may be quite a few who take the opposite view, still
the truth will prevail. Man hungers for adventure for it
brings him the excitement and the resulting satisfaction.
Excitement and anticipation make life worthwhile. If
everything is as dust or as free as air there can’t be any
excitement and life would have no meaning and man can
at best be a cabbage going through a vegetative growth.

It may be enough for the purpose of this essay to confine
to adventurous acts though there are others which may be
equally exciting.

Why does any person go through the hazards of an
adventure? It is because of their psychological needs. We
see it in children. They explore and get into difficult places
because they like excitement. This sort of thing is quite
common among school children. Their mischief and frolic
have got them into trouble. The youth does dangerous
things because they have the elements of adventure in
them. While there is attendant self satisfaction, it also
ensures public recognition. One climbs mountains where
others have never gone; one jumps long distances for the
sake of recognition. To get the excitement of standing on
the victory stand and getting the applause of the crowd
one goes through months and months of hard training.
What an excitement we get seeing the star artist in the
circus on the trapeze! Crossing the Channel or climbing

Mount Everest has its own excitement. Climbing Everest
and crossing the Channel have been done by successive
generations of adventurers. Nobody now looks upon these
as a challenge; so too with space. The news that man had
landed on the moon was exciting in those days but now it
is taken for grated.

Man’s desire to try the impossible challenge and win is at
the bottom of so many success stories. If these
adventurers had not taken the challenge there would not
have been any human progress, whether it is in the field of
sports, science or medicine. It is not foolish or childish to
look for adventures. Then only can one cross the
uncharted seas and happy as Ulysses. Only the weakling
will look upon anything calling for excitement and danger,
as foolish.