RE: #DolphinSchool extra, launching a foam glider from a 150 ft tower to demonstrate how taking risks pays off! (video)
I like the analogy of launching the glider from higher up, with going for bigger things in life. Nice videos too. Did you ever recover the glider?
On roadblocks, I guess it depends on how your interaction with it leaves you. If you hit one in your car, it may become immobilized, but you can walk around it. Tripping over a cliff could leave you non-amulatory, but if you have your phone you can call for help, unless the battery died.
Maybe it depends on how resilient, determined and lucky you are, when hitting roadblocks early in life. People proceed at least partly on their own experience, and if they get around roadblocks more than not as a youth, they might be optimistic about future ones. Conversely for the person who for one reason or another has not had good results with roadblocks, they might not feel it's worth the effort to get around the next one if they generally haven't in the past.
It also depends on where the road is blocked. If a person is satisfied with where they find themselves at that point in the road, they may choose to enjoy were they are at, and not consider the blockage to be a disadvantage at all.
Personally, I've had my share of roadblocks, and generally was not in a position to camp out at that spot, but had to keep moving in another direction. Each leg of the journey has been an adventure!
Thanks for the comment @kenny-crane, I think you took it a little literally. Ha, that's great. I mean any limitation in life, a point past where you're told not to go. Even if you can't go through, or around, there are always endless other possibilities. Of course, like all analogies, it has its flaws. Thanks for the thoughtful reply.
Yeah, I was trying to keep it in the form of an analogy, as I'm not all that interested in sharing every deep detail of exact life experiences on the permanent blockchain as many others are! I guess my main point was that how you react when you're knocked down to the mat in the boxing ring of life depends on how many times you were knocked down before. Sometimes, experience might teach one that staying on the mat is your best strategy. Or something like that. :P It's late, cya tmrw on Steemit!