Risk vs Reward: A Tale of Old Souls

If you came here looking for a tale of opposites then congratulations you found one.  In the world there are two types of people, those who take risks and those who don’t.  I believe that in general people fall into one of the two categories, but Old Souls fall between them.  You may ask “How?”.  You may say that I am contradicting yourself, but in reality there is more than just risk vs no risk.  There is making an educated decision vs randomly throwing all your cards into the basket.  In general, Old Souls tend to study situations more thoroughly than the average person based on feedback from other Old Souls like myself.  For this reason the chances of having a greater reward for a smaller risk can be seen quite often from our kind.

Preparation vs Execution?  School vs Job?  Waiting vs Doing? Poor vs Rich? Sad vs Happy?  Stalling vs Creating?

All of these in my head are complete opposites of each other.  Some of the examples are better than others.  I have a friend who is an Old Soul.  He is in a large dilemma where he seems to be caught on the left side of this issue.  He is waiting.  He is preparing.   The long route with less risk, but much safer for him.

Is this human nature, or an Old Soul feature?

What should he do, take a risk and walk on the right, or choose safety on the left?

EDIT: The Future

I moved out of the country for a bit to help fulfill one of my aspiring dreams while he stayed home and actually took a step backwards I think.  In my mind, I believe that the true Old Soul nature isn’t to sit back and take your time, it is to make educated decisions that are best for you even if others disagree.  My friend an I are almost complete opposites, yet in the end we share the trait of thinking our decisions through thoroughly before we make them.  Cheers too the educated decision!

– Buzz