“You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.”
— Jim Carrey
This quote emphasizes that failure is possible in any path we choose. Since risk exists everywhere, it makes more sense to pursue what truly matters to us rather than playing it safe with something we don't care about.
I watched my father give up his dream of being a comedian to take a safe accounting job, and then he got laid off anyway when I was twelve. The factory job, the van, the night shifts, that destroyed any illusion that playing it safe actually protects you. There is no safe. There is only what you choose to risk and what you choose to leave on the table. My father lost his dream and still lost everything else too. I decided I would rather fail at the thing I loved than succeed at something that was slowly killing me. Risk the thing that matters.