What If.

 

I have never been a notorious risk-seeker, but recently I noticed I have become one of those OLD PERSONS I would have rolled my eyes at in my teens and twenties. One of those people who always thinks of the what ifs, even though she tries hard to keep most of them to herself. When I watch Highflyer's sons skiing, racing downhill at breakneck speed, not a care in the world, I inwardly flinch and think of all the things that could happen and that I know can actually happen. Recent horror stories of friends and friends of friends who had nasty accidents, some of them even fatal, while skiing or snowboarding don't help and my own accident that resulted in an injured knee has made me a lot more cautious and I know only too well that I am unfit and therefore more prone to injuries. Call me boring, but I don't really want to add to some statistic, nor do I want to end up in an operating theatre.