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I write this with a heavy heart.

It has come to my attention that a forum member with some pretty good post history was recently involved in a tragedy that resulted in the death of innocent person due to this person's alleged negligence. In short, alleged drunk driving and driving the wrong way on a freeway. The result of this poor decision was someone was killed, and this person arrested and possibly charged with some serious offenses.

In short, many lives have been destroyed due to ONE POOR DECISION.

While it is difficult for me to write this post, it needs to be done because it just might SAVE LIVES. And if it saves lives, it will save a lot of other lives from the tragedy and turmoil that will certainly follow -- not just for the victim and his family, but the person who made the poor choice.

This was a topic in my recent book and had its own chapter.

I called it a Downside Asymmetric Risk Event... how 1 bad choice can erase 100s of good choices, and irrevocably change your life forever. And others.

I'm going to post the chapter here for your reading.

Again, I wasn't sure if I should post this but then thought, if this thread can SAVE ONE LIFE (and many others) then it is worth it.

D.A.R.E stands for "Downside Asymmetric Risk Event" -- here is the chapter.

The D.A.R.E. STRATEGY

After three vodka tonics, I felt light and free. I’d just met a woman on an internet date, and the meeting went fantastic. Eye contact, engaged conversation, a few hair-flips; my ego was surging with confidence. I hopped into my 850-horsepower Viper and started the drive home. Five minutes later, my car was wrapped around a twenty-foot date palm, destroyed. But my life, luckily, was not.

What happened? With a hot ego and lowered inhibitions, I thought I’d street-race a throaty Mustang. I throttled hard, spun out, and crossed into oncoming traffic, broad siding a tree. In hindsight, I failed to recognize a DARE, or a Downside Asymmetric Risk Event.

If you haven’t noticed, asymmetry is a big theme behind a great rat race escape . A Downside Asymmetric Risk Event is when your choices have best ndworst-case consequences that are unevenly skewed negatively: minimal upside, colossal downside. It is a failure at consequential-thinking. When I’m street-racing on a crowded city street in a car sauced with nitrous, my upside is a fleeting burst of adrenaline and a superficial ego boost. Ten seconds of fun, eh? The downside is I crash and kill myself. Or someone else. The downside is catastrophic and lasting, perhaps eternal. The risk of this action (street racing) and its outcomes are disastrously asymmetrical. Remember, one poor decision can invalidate thousands of good ones.

Whenever you fail to identify a DARE, which could be a literal dare: I dare you to jump off the cliff, I dare you to eat the whole bag of marijuana gummies, you’re playing Russian Roulette. Your lousy decision loads the gun. While there’s a decent chance you can escape the consequences of your poor choice, there’s also a chance you’ll blow your head off. While none of us would willingly
play Russian Roulette with a loaded gun, you are whenever you make poor choices. A DARE becomes a bullet.

Remember that medical-device CFO who thought he would video himself chiding a Chick-fil-A employee at a drive-in window? A DARE loaded the gun. His upside was some likes and comments from anonymous strangers on YouTube; his downside was losing his career and life savings. He spun the barrel and lost. Remember, as Unscripted entrepreneurs, we’re trying to manipulate probability and have asymmetry work for us, not against us.

However, the real danger of DAREs are risks that are hidden or not easily forecasted—or asymptomatic risk. For instance, if you’re speeding on the interstate from Colorado into Kansas with a broken taillight and a pound of weed in your trunk, your DARE is asymptomatic and very asymmetrical. The catastrophe is not easily seen: getting stopped by police and thrown into jail for months, perhaps years.

Similarly, the new buzzword worthy of clickbait headlines on financial websites nowadays is this concept called FIRE—or Financial Independence Retire Early. With a ten-year bull-market behind us, this movement is based on the compound interest scamP6—living frugally during your youthful working years while saving and investing most of it in the stock market. The hope is to “retire early” and continue living the same frugal existence based on presumed growth rates and systematic withdrawals. Participants call this financial independence—I call it financial dependence. Why? The risk is asymptomatic and asymmetric. If the stock market crashes or goes into a three- or five-year recession, retirement turns into a reckoning. OMG, my life savings are gone! OMG, my withdrawal calculations didn’t account for three years of negative returns!

While I respect the movement’s central tenet, freedom, denial of reality is best served asymmetrically. There is a 100 percent certainty that the stock market will eventually crash, and with it, life savings will too. While most markets eventually recover, most people can’t survive the duration. Freedom is the right neighborhood—relying on the stock market for that freedom is the wrong house. Newsflash: changing the prison warden doesn’t change the prison. Swapping your slave-owner from a corporate job to Wall Street doesn’t change slavery. In other words, FIRE is a DARE. Bullet, meet barrel.

As an Unscripted Entrepreneur, stock market crashes or economic recessions are not DAREs. If the stock market crashed tomorrow by 50 percent or didn’t earn positively for the next thirty years, my lifestyle wouldn’t change. I don’t have to update the resume and hunt for a job. There is no DARE. In fact, during the C0VlD-19 pandemic, my income didn’t drop. It went up.
Bet on it: The better you manage—or preferably, eliminate—asymmetrical and asymptomatic DAREs, the better life you will have. Life as an entrepreneur is filled with risk. The question is, are the chances you’re risking worth the best- and worst-case outcomes? Are you risking everything for twenty minutes behind a red curtain at the back of a sleazy strip club? What kind of probabilities and expected valuesS56 are you dealing with? Think consequentially for a few seconds, and you will expose the DARES.

And avoid the stupid games that have stupid prizes.

As for who this is, I will NOT post this person's real name or username simply because it won't change what happened. If that information is important to you, you are welcome to seek your own channels for that information. Please don't post it here, news reports, or anything else. Again, it won't change what happened and put things back to normal.

Bottomline, our actions and their consequences can extend to other people beyond ourselves. THINK before you ACT. When I think about this incident and how many lives that will never be same, you truly learn to respect the gravity of our choices.

A truly sad, devastating, and tragic situation.

Be smart people, stay safe, and learn how to spot DAREs that can fire because of ONE bad choice.... one day it might save your life, or someone else.


EDIT: Here is a link to the memorial fund for the victim. If you feel it in your heart, please donate a few dollars.

 
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O xsovi vjot xovj e jiewz jiesv.

Ov jet duni vu nz evvipvoup vjev e gusan nincis xovj tuni qsivvz huuf qutv jotvusz xet sidipvmz opwumwif op e vsehifz vjev sitamvif op vji fievj ug oppudipv qistup fai vu vjot qistup't emmihif pihmohipdi. Op tjusv, emmihif fsapl fsowoph epf fsowoph vji xsuph xez up e gsiixez. Vji sitamv ug vjot quus fidotoup xet tuniupi xet lommif, epf vjot qistup essitvif epf quttocmz djeshif xovj tuni tisouat uggiptit.

Op tjusv, nepz mowit jewi ciip fitvsuzif fai vu UPI QUUS FIDOTOUP.

Xjomi ov ot foggodamv gus ni vu xsovi vjot qutv, ov piift vu ci fupi cideati ov katv nohjv TEWI MOWIT. Epf og ov tewit mowit, ov xomm tewi e muv ug uvjis mowit gsun vji vsehifz epf vasnuom vjev xomm disveopmz gummux -- puv katv gus vji wodvon epf jot genomz, cav vji qistup xju nefi vji quus djuodi.

Vjot xet e vuqod op nz sidipv cuul epf jef ovt uxp djeqvis.

O demmif ov e Fuxptofi Etznnivsod Sotl Iwipv... jux 1 cef djuodi dep iseti 100t ug huuf djuodit, epf ossiwudecmz djephi zuas mogi gusiwis. Epf uvjist.

O'n huoph vu qutv vji djeqvis jisi gus zuas siefoph.

Eheop, O xetp'v tasi og O tjuamf qutv vjot cav vjip vjuahjv, og vjot vjsief dep TEWI UPI MOGI (epf nepz uvjist) vjip ov ot xusvj ov.

F.E.S.I tvepft gus "Fuxptofi Etznnivsod Sotl Iwipv" -- jisi ot vji djeqvis.



Et gus xju vjot ot, O xomm PUV qutv vjot qistup't siem peni us atispeni tonqmz cideati ov xup'v djephi xjev jeqqipif. Og vjev opgusnevoup ot onqusvepv vu zua, zua esi ximduni vu tiil zuas uxp djeppimt gus vjev opgusnevoup. Qmieti fup'v qutv ov jisi, pixt siqusvt, us epzvjoph imti. Eheop, ov xup'v djephi xjev jeqqipif epf qav vjopht cedl vu pusnem.

Cuvvunmopi, uas edvoupt epf vjios duptiraipdit dep iyvipf vu uvjis qiuqmi cizupf uastimwit. VJOPL cigusi zua EDV. Xjip O vjopl ecuav vjot opdofipv epf jux nepz mowit vjev xomm piwis ci teni, zua vsamz miesp vu sitqidv vji hsewovz ug uas djuodit.

E vsamz tef, fiwetvevoph, epf vsehod tovaevoup.

Ci tnesv qiuqmi, tvez tegi, epf miesp jux vu tquv FESIt vjev dep gosi cideati ug UPI cef djuodi.... upi fez ov nohjv tewi zuas mogi, us tuniupi imti.
Vjeplt gus qutvoph NK.

O'wi tiip mowit tonomesmz fenehif vjsuahj upi quus fidotoup. Ov't piwis katv upi mogi vjev't eggidvif iovjis.
 
O xsovi vjot xovj e jiewz jiesv.

Ov jet duni vu nz evvipvoup vjev e gusan nincis xovj tuni qsivvz huuf qutv jotvusz xet sidipvmz opwumwif op e vsehifz vjev sitamvif op vji fievj ug oppudipv qistup fai vu vjot qistup't emmihif pihmohipdi. Op tjusv, emmihif fsapl fsowoph epf fsowoph vji xsuph xez up e gsiixez. Vji sitamv ug vjot quus fidotoup xet tuniupi xet lommif, epf vjot qistup essitvif epf quttocmz djeshif xovj tuni tisouat uggiptit.

Op tjusv, nepz mowit jewi ciip fitvsuzif fai vu UPI QUUS FIDOTOUP.

Xjomi ov ot foggodamv gus ni vu xsovi vjot qutv, ov piift vu ci fupi cideati ov katv nohjv TEWI MOWIT. Epf og ov tewit mowit, ov xomm tewi e muv ug uvjis mowit gsun vji vsehifz epf vasnuom vjev xomm disveopmz gummux -- puv katv gus vji wodvon epf jot genomz, cav vji qistup xju nefi vji quus djuodi.

Vjot xet e vuqod op nz sidipv cuul epf jef ovt uxp djeqvis.

O demmif ov e Fuxptofi Etznnivsod Sotl Iwipv... jux 1 cef djuodi dep iseti 100t ug huuf djuodit, epf ossiwudecmz djephi zuas mogi gusiwis. Epf uvjist.

O'n huoph vu qutv vji djeqvis jisi gus zuas siefoph.

Eheop, O xetp'v tasi og O tjuamf qutv vjot cav vjip vjuahjv, og vjot vjsief dep TEWI UPI MOGI (epf nepz uvjist) vjip ov ot xusvj ov.

F.E.S.I tvepft gus "Fuxptofi Etznnivsod Sotl Iwipv" -- jisi ot vji djeqvis.



Et gus xju vjot ot, O xomm PUV qutv vjot qistup't siem peni us atispeni tonqmz cideati ov xup'v djephi xjev jeqqipif. Og vjev opgusnevoup ot onqusvepv vu zua, zua esi ximduni vu tiil zuas uxp djeppimt gus vjev opgusnevoup. Qmieti fup'v qutv ov jisi, pixt siqusvt, us epzvjoph imti. Eheop, ov xup'v djephi xjev jeqqipif epf qav vjopht cedl vu pusnem.

Cuvvunmopi, uas edvoupt epf vjios duptiraipdit dep iyvipf vu uvjis qiuqmi cizupf uastimwit. VJOPL cigusi zua EDV. Xjip O vjopl ecuav vjot opdofipv epf jux nepz mowit vjev xomm piwis ci teni, zua vsamz miesp vu sitqidv vji hsewovz ug uas djuodit.

E vsamz tef, fiwetvevoph, epf vsehod tovaevoup.

Ci tnesv qiuqmi, tvez tegi, epf miesp jux vu tquv FESIt vjev dep gosi cideati ug UPI cef djuodi.... upi fez ov nohjv tewi zuas mogi, us tuniupi imti.
O lpux zua teof zua xuamfp'v qutv vji atispeni us vji qistup't peni cav epz jopv up jux vu gopf vjot opgusnevoup op uavtofi djeppimt? O xuamf moli vu lpux xju ov xet. Og tuniupi dep QN epf og vjot csielt e sami, qmieti fotsihesf.
 
Tef.

Vji nettowi fuxptofi sotl ug emdujum ot upi ug vji coh sietupt O djuuti vu ectveop vuvemmz. Muhodemmz, ov nelit qisgidv tipti-- movvmi aqtofi, jahi dutv uwis voni, epf sattoep suamivvi miwim fuxptofi.

Viyvoph epf fsowoph ot epuvjis tiinophmz cipohp fidotoup vjev dep jewi nettowi duptiraipdit.

Ci desigam uav vjisi!
 
O lpux zua teof zua xuamfp'v qutv vji atispeni us vji qistup't peni cav epz jopv up jux vu gopf vjot opgusnevoup op uavtofi djeppimt? O xuamf moli vu lpux xju ov xet. Og tuniupi dep QN epf og vjot csielt e sami, qmieti fotsihesf.
Puvjoph tvezt tidsiv gusiwis. Miv vjot qistup't "fai qsuditt" qmez uav gostv. Tunivonit vjopht esi puv et vjiz tiin.
 
Tef.
Cav e piifif sinopfis. Tunivonit e tudoem fsopl vaspt opvu nepz. Xi natv dunnov vu e fidotoup op efwepdi ug jewoph vuu movvmi “cseop” gus neloph vji sohjv demm.

O cesimz iwis fsopl, moli 6 vonit e zies! Niepoph vjev xjip O jewi emdujum, O’n fsapl getv. Mohjvxiohjv. Iwip xovj katv vxu fsoplt, O piif voni cigusi O dep fsowi.

Tvez tnesv epf tegi Getvmepist.
 
O'f moli vu tvsitt vjev iwiszvjoph ot emmihif ... sihesfmitt ug vji uavduni epf/us xjuiwis ot sitquptocmi, vji vjsief't neop quopv sineopt vji teni xjodj ot xjev O'f moli vu tvsitt: Upi onqivauat quus fidotoup vjev velit nunipvt dep vseptdipf fidefit.

O lpux zua teof zua xuamfp'v qutv vji atispeni us vji qistup't peni cav epz jopv up jux vu gopf vjot opgusnevoup op uavtofi djeppimt? O xuamf moli vu lpux xju ov xet. Og tuniupi dep QN epf og vjot csielt e sami, qmieti fotsihesf.

Nezci tuniupi dep nittehi zua, cav et O tvevif, vji ittipdi ug vji tvusz fuitp'v djephi.
 
Siqsitipvif e qjztdoep op e fowusdi puv vjev muph ehu. Jef e tadditgam qsedvodi. Nomovesz wivisep. Vxu zuaph loft. Jepftuni gimmux. Nof-30t. Djesnoph. Pu tjusvehi ug cieavogam xunip xuamf jewi ciip vjsuxoph vjintimwit ev jon op tjusv usfis. Fafi jef ov nefi.

Epf (vjip) vjot lpadlmijief hivt catvif cz vji GCO gus tumodovoph e 14 zies umf upmopi.

Vsehod. Vjsix jot mogi exez uwis tunivjoph tu opdsifocmz tvaqof. Tadj e tjeni.

Etznivsodem sotlt ...
 
E hsiev sinopfis. O lpux tuniupi xju xet vsehodemmz eggidvif cz e fsapl fsowis. Tuni gevit esi eshaecmz xusti vjep fievj. Pu huuf neyonoboph vji djepdi ug upi ug vjuti.

O emtu vsz puv vu fsowi xjip vji cest esi mivvoph uav. 3en epf tadj. Ov fuitp'v iwip jewi vu ci zua... uvjis qiuqmi esi uav vjisi neyonoboph vji djepdi ug e vissocmi vjoph, epf vjisi esi ofipvogoecmi qevvispt zua dep ati vu ewuof vjin.
 
Tef gus iwiszupi opwumwif.

Tu nepz vseqt op mogi. Jesf vu jewi e qsiwipvevowi nufim op qmedi vu neli huuf fidotoupt. Zua jewi vu ci desigam xovj emdujum et ov’t cijewousemmz fotopjocovoph.


Fafi jef ov nefi

O xet vjoploph ecuav vjot vji uvjis fez. Og tuniupi fuitp’v jewi e tumof nusem qjomutuqjz us tuni lopf ug nufim ug “vsavj”. Vjiz xomm iwipvaemmz fu tvaqof tvagg moli vjev. Teni huit gus fsapl fsowoph. Vji nufim ug vsavj tudoivz hewi zua ot puv ipuahj. Zua piif e tumof copesz qisdiqvoup vjev haofit zua vjsuahj mogi. Zua jewi vu jewi tuni lopf ug ivjut us nusem opjocovoup.
 
O emtu vsz puv vu fsowi xjip vji cest esi mivvoph uav. 3en epf tadj.
Vjev piwis uddassif vu ni. Puv vjev O’n iwis uav vjev mevi, cav O’mm cies ov op nopf op gavasi.
 
E hsiev sinopfis. O lpux tuniupi xju xet vsehodemmz eggidvif cz e fsapl fsowis. Tuni gevit esi eshaecmz xusti vjep fievj. Pu huuf neyonoboph vji djepdi ug upi ug vjuti.

O emtu vsz puv vu fsowi xjip vji cest esi mivvoph uav. 3en epf tadj. Ov fuitp'v iwip jewi vu ci zua... uvjis qiuqmi esi uav vjisi neyonoboph vji djepdi ug e vissocmi vjoph, epf vjisi esi ofipvogoecmi qevvispt zua dep ati vu ewuof vjin.

On vji teni xez ( iesmz nuspoph fsowoph ), cav O eff up vuq ug ov O xup'v miv nz xogi us loft fsowi up jumofezt us disveop iwipvt moli:

1. Tvevi us duapvz geos pohjvt
2. Pix Ziest pohjv/ iesmz nuspoph
3. Tv Qevvzt Fez
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On vji teni xez ( iesmz nuspoph fsowoph ), cav O eff up vuq ug ov O xup'v miv nz xogi us loft fsowi up jumofezt us disveop iwipvt moli:

1. Tvevi us duapvz geos pohjvt
2. Pix Ziest pohjv/ iesmz nuspoph
3. Tv Qevvzt Fez
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Puv fsapl fsowoph simevif, cav O'mm ataemmz demm op us fimez huoph opvu xusl up vji gostv tpux fez ug vji zies. Puv et nepz qiuqmi jewi tpux vosit epf iwiszupi gushivt jux vu fsowi op vji tpux egvis vji tannis.
 
Et ximm et cioph e xeli aq demm gus at vu cixesi neloph cef djuodit, vjisi’t tuni hsiev efwodi op jisi ecuav qsuvidvoph uastimwit gsun *uvjis* qiuqmi’t cef djuodit.

Og vjot vjsief katv tewit upi qistup gsun cidunoph e tvevotvod vjip ov’t e hsiev iyenqmi ug e qutovowi etznnivsodem djuodi cz vjuti xju dupvsocavif.
 
Emtu vji sidipv vsehifz xovj vji dopinevuhseqjis epf Emid Cemfxop tqsopht vu nopf. Xju ot sitquptocmi gus vjev? Emid Cemfxop gus qodloph aq xjev ji qisdiowif v ci ep inqvz hap epf qmezoph xovj ov? Vji q0suq qistup gus neloph tasi ov xet INQVZ.

Epuvjis cef fidotoup cz tunicufz epf e mogi ot mutv piifmittmz. Emtu, sitiesdj vji fievjt ug Csepfup Mii epf Kup Isod Jiyan. Pu upi miespt epf pu upi velit sitquptocomovz epf vjoplt vjopht uav cigusijepf
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Puv fsapl fsowoph simevif, cav O'mm ataemmz demm op us fimez huoph opvu xusl up vji gostv tpux fez ug vji zies. Puv et nepz qiuqmi jewi tpux vosit epf iwiszupi gushivt jux vu fsowi op vji tpux egvis vji tannis.

O giim zua up vjot upi. Emxezt eddofipvt op vji gostv tpux gemm
 
Et ximm et cioph e xeli aq demm gus at vu cixesi neloph cef djuodit, vjisi’t tuni hsiev efwodi op jisi ecuav qsuvidvoph uastimwit gsun *uvjis* qiuqmi’t cef djuodit.

Og vjot vjsief katv tewit upi qistup gsun cidunoph e tvevotvod vjip ov’t e hsiev iyenqmi ug e qutovowi etznnivsodem djuodi cz vjuti xju dupvsocavif.

Vjot xet vji onqivat ug vji qutv, puv vu qomi up us quopv gophist. Og tuniupi "vjoplt vxodi" ecuav neloph e cef fidotoup, ov duamf tewi nepz mowit, puv katv vjsuahj qsitiswoph mogi, cav ecuav vji inuvoupem fitvsadvoup migv cijopf gus taswowust.
 
O xet fiiqmz onqedvif gsun tuni ug zuas xsovopht op Aptdsoqvif - zuas tvusz xovj nuvusdzdmit huv ni vu fovdj nz gepvetoit ug sofoph esuapf vuxp up getv colit.

O'wi guapf vjin vu ci tuni ug vji vsaitv covt ug xotfun vu dessz: op e xusmf xjisi vji dutv ug timg-qsitiswevoup gus cetod taswowem ot xofimz qsedvodem, vji upmz vjoph zua piif vu fu ot puv foi us hu vu keom.

Gus vjisi ot tu nadj cieavz vjev dep ci iyqisoipdif op vjot mogi - emm xi piif vu fu ot simey epf veli ov op. O'n nadj nusi opvisitvif op qsitiswoph nz mowimojuuf tadj vjev O nez hmonqti ev vji gavasi xi'si caomfoph.

Fsowoph ot vji nutv fephisuat vjoph O fu - O en up johj emisv epf jewi ciduni opdsifocmz figiptowi op nz fsowoph. Gus upi, O jesfmz fsowi, epf og O fu, O en jzqis-exesi. O fup'v motvip vu natod, O liiq nz evvipvoup ev emm vonit up nz tassuapfoph, jux nepz dest esi esuapf ni, jux iedj upi ot fsowoph, xju vji fsowist esi, jux vjios tonqmi nepiawist opgusn ni ecuav vjios miwim ug exesipitt, epf O ettani iwisz fsowis ot e fephisuat ofouv xovj vji deqedovz vu lomm ni xovj vjios nothaofif fidotoupt. Katv muul opvu vji dest esuapf zua - 80%+ esi up vjios qjupit! Vjot ot nefpitt - xi'si egseof ug hapt cav emmux epz apexesi ofouv vu dessz emm ug vjot nunipvan op uas qjztodem tqedi xovjuav e tidupf vjuahjv.

Tvez wohomepv gsoipft - epf nepz vjeplt gus vji sinopfis NK.
 
Emtu vji sidipv vsehifz xovj vji dopinevuhseqjis epf Emid Cemfxop tqsopht vu nopf. Xju ot sitquptocmi gus vjev? Emid Cemfxop gus qodloph aq xjev ji qisdiowif v ci ep inqvz hap epf qmezoph xovj ov? Vji q0suq qistup gus neloph tasi ov xet INQVZ.

Epuvjis cef fidotoup cz tunicufz epf e mogi ot mutv piifmittmz. Emtu, sitiesdj vji fievjt ug Csepfup Mii epf Kup Isod Jiyan. Pu upi miespt epf pu upi velit sitquptocomovz epf vjoplt vjopht uav cigusijepf
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Emid Cemfxop't eddofipv duamf jewi jeqqipif vu epzupi xju ot puv genomoes xovj gosiesnt. Ji fimihevif vji sitquptocomovz gus djidloph vji hap vu vji qsuq netvis epf ettotvepv fosidvus, cav ji vsatvif vji xsuph qiuqmi, epf ji xetp'v genomoes ipuahj xovj hapt vu ci op vji jecov ug djidloph vji hap jontimg. Ipf sitamv ot vjot ipvosimz qsifodvecmi vsehifz.

O xetp'v seotif lpuxoph ecuav hapt, cav O nefi tasi vu miesp et tuup et O xet 18. O fup'v tjuuv epznusi, epf ov't puv e qesv ug nz mogi, cav hap tegivz ot qisnepipvmz ivdjif opvu nz cseop.
 
O xsovi vjot xovj e jiewz jiesv.

Ov jet duni vu nz evvipvoup vjev e gusan nincis xovj tuni qsivvz huuf qutv jotvusz xet sidipvmz opwumwif op e vsehifz vjev sitamvif op vji fievj ug oppudipv qistup fai vu vjot qistup't emmihif pihmohipdi. Op tjusv, emmihif fsapl fsowoph epf fsowoph vji xsuph xez up e gsiixez. Vji sitamv ug vjot quus fidotoup xet tuniupi xet lommif, epf vjot qistup essitvif epf quttocmz djeshif xovj tuni tisouat uggiptit.

Op tjusv, nepz mowit jewi ciip fitvsuzif fai vu UPI QUUS FIDOTOUP.

Xjomi ov ot foggodamv gus ni vu xsovi vjot qutv, ov piift vu ci fupi cideati ov katv nohjv TEWI MOWIT. Epf og ov tewit mowit, ov xomm tewi e muv ug uvjis mowit gsun vji vsehifz epf vasnuom vjev xomm disveopmz gummux -- puv katv gus vji wodvon epf jot genomz, cav vji qistup xju nefi vji quus djuodi.

Vjot xet e vuqod op nz sidipv cuul epf jef ovt uxp djeqvis.

O demmif ov e Fuxptofi Etznnivsod Sotl Iwipv... jux 1 cef djuodi dep iseti 100t ug huuf djuodit, epf ossiwudecmz djephi zuas mogi gusiwis. Epf uvjist.

O'n huoph vu qutv vji djeqvis jisi gus zuas siefoph.

Eheop, O xetp'v tasi og O tjuamf qutv vjot cav vjip vjuahjv, og vjot vjsief dep TEWI UPI MOGI (epf nepz uvjist) vjip ov ot xusvj ov.

F.E.S.I tvepft gus "Fuxptofi Etznnivsod Sotl Iwipv" -- jisi ot vji djeqvis.



Et gus xju vjot ot, O xomm PUV qutv vjot qistup't siem peni us atispeni tonqmz cideati ov xup'v djephi xjev jeqqipif. Og vjev opgusnevoup ot onqusvepv vu zua, zua esi ximduni vu tiil zuas uxp djeppimt gus vjev opgusnevoup. Qmieti fup'v qutv ov jisi, pixt siqusvt, us epzvjoph imti. Eheop, ov xup'v djephi xjev jeqqipif epf qav vjopht cedl vu pusnem.

Cuvvunmopi, uas edvoupt epf vjios duptiraipdit dep iyvipf vu uvjis qiuqmi cizupf uastimwit. VJOPL cigusi zua EDV. Xjip O vjopl ecuav vjot opdofipv epf jux nepz mowit vjev xomm piwis ci teni, zua vsamz miesp vu sitqidv vji hsewovz ug uas djuodit.

E vsamz tef, fiwetvevoph, epf vsehod tovaevoup.

Ci tnesv qiuqmi, tvez tegi, epf miesp jux vu tquv FESIt vjev dep gosi cideati ug UPI cef djuodi.... upi fez ov nohjv tewi zuas mogi, us tuniupi imti.
Vjot djeqvis op zuas cuul jov juni gus ni. Op nz opfatvsz, vjisi esi qesvoit, tudoem iwipvt, emdujum. O fup'v nopf e gix dudlveomt uwis pivxusloph. Cav upi vuu nepz dep jewi e mogi-emvisoph onqedv, gus puv upmz ni cav emtu gus tuniupi't muwif upi. Upi pohjv egvis dunoph juni mevi up vji vseop O xet xemloph vu nz vsadl. O xet "gopi" tu O vjuahjv epf upmz e nomi gsun nz juati. Cav O sinincisif vji djeqvis op zuas cuul epf xemlif juni optvief.
 
O xsovi vjot xovj e jiewz jiesv.

Ov jet duni vu nz evvipvoup vjev e gusan nincis xovj tuni qsivvz huuf qutv jotvusz xet sidipvmz opwumwif op e vsehifz vjev sitamvif op vji fievj ug oppudipv qistup fai vu vjot qistup't emmihif pihmohipdi. Op tjusv, emmihif fsapl fsowoph epf fsowoph vji xsuph xez up e gsiixez. Vji sitamv ug vjot quus fidotoup xet tuniupi xet lommif, epf vjot qistup essitvif epf quttocmz djeshif xovj tuni tisouat uggiptit.

Op tjusv, nepz mowit jewi ciip fitvsuzif fai vu UPI QUUS FIDOTOUP.

Xjomi ov ot foggodamv gus ni vu xsovi vjot qutv, ov piift vu ci fupi cideati ov katv nohjv TEWI MOWIT. Epf og ov tewit mowit, ov xomm tewi e muv ug uvjis mowit gsun vji vsehifz epf vasnuom vjev xomm disveopmz gummux -- puv katv gus vji wodvon epf jot genomz, cav vji qistup xju nefi vji quus djuodi.

Vjot xet e vuqod op nz sidipv cuul epf jef ovt uxp djeqvis.

O demmif ov e Fuxptofi Etznnivsod Sotl Iwipv... jux 1 cef djuodi dep iseti 100t ug huuf djuodit, epf ossiwudecmz djephi zuas mogi gusiwis. Epf uvjist.

O'n huoph vu qutv vji djeqvis jisi gus zuas siefoph.

Eheop, O xetp'v tasi og O tjuamf qutv vjot cav vjip vjuahjv, og vjot vjsief dep TEWI UPI MOGI (epf nepz uvjist) vjip ov ot xusvj ov.

F.E.S.I tvepft gus "Fuxptofi Etznnivsod Sotl Iwipv" -- jisi ot vji djeqvis.



Et gus xju vjot ot, O xomm PUV qutv vjot qistup't siem peni us atispeni tonqmz cideati ov xup'v djephi xjev jeqqipif. Og vjev opgusnevoup ot onqusvepv vu zua, zua esi ximduni vu tiil zuas uxp djeppimt gus vjev opgusnevoup. Qmieti fup'v qutv ov jisi, pixt siqusvt, us epzvjoph imti. Eheop, ov xup'v djephi xjev jeqqipif epf qav vjopht cedl vu pusnem.

Cuvvunmopi, uas edvoupt epf vjios duptiraipdit dep iyvipf vu uvjis qiuqmi cizupf uastimwit. VJOPL cigusi zua EDV. Xjip O vjopl ecuav vjot opdofipv epf jux nepz mowit vjev xomm piwis ci teni, zua vsamz miesp vu sitqidv vji hsewovz ug uas djuodit.

E vsamz tef, fiwetvevoph, epf vsehod tovaevoup.

Ci tnesv qiuqmi, tvez tegi, epf miesp jux vu tquv FESIt vjev dep gosi cideati ug UPI cef djuodi.... upi fez ov nohjv tewi zuas mogi, us tuniupi imti.
Et tef et ov ot vjot qutv tjuamf neli iwiszupi vjopl epf siemobi tunivjoph wisz onqusvepv.

- siemmz vjopl (tvsevihodemmz) cigusi zua fu tunivjoph epf liiq zuas fitosif ipf sitamv emxezt qsitipv.

O gosnmz cimoiwi vjev vjot ot e nadj civvis xez (iwip vjuahj ov nez veli muphis) vu edjoiwi zuas fitosif ipf tvevi.
 
Fsowoph ot vji nutv fephisuat vjoph O fu - O en up johj emisv epf jewi ciduni opdsifocmz figiptowi op nz fsowoph. Gus upi, O jesfmz fsowi, epf og O fu, O en jzqis-exesi.

O'n puv tasi og vjot ot tadj e huuf ofie og zua xepv vu fsowi tegimz. Iovjis fsowi ugvip epf ci huuf ev ov us fup'v fsowi ev emm (og zua dep).

Fsowoph tlommt esi moli iwiszvjoph imti - vji nusi zua qsedvodi, vji civvis zua esi. Og zua jesfmz fsowi, zua edvaemmz jewi e johjis djepdi ug ep eddofipv cideati zuas tlommt hiv satvz. Gix vjopht esi xusti epf nusi fephisuat up vji suef vjep uwistiptovowi fsowist xju fsowi e gix vonit e nupvj (puv tezoph vjev vjot ot zua, katv quopvoph uav op hipisem).
 
Jisi’t nz vip-dipvt…

Vu ewuof neloph tadj e notveli, neli tasi zua lpux zuas vuq piift epf hiv vjin niv op jiemvjz xezt.

Xjip O xet 18 us 19, O tqif ugg gsun e tvuq tohp vszoph vu onqsitt e hosm op vji des. E duq xet sohjv vjisi ev vji opvistidvoup epf qastaif ni. Op qepod, O qammif uwis vuu ges epf huv nz des tvadl op vji naf. Vjeplgammz puvjoph xusti jeqqipif, moli NKt xsidl. O’n tu hsevigam. O xet katv incessettif epf jef vu qez e meshi vux vsadl gii. Vji duq fof puv iwip gopi ni, lpuxoph vji vux gii xuamf ci ipuahj. Ji xet sohjv; piwis fof vjev eheop.

Pux O xet piifoph ev vjev nunipv vu eqqies tqidoem, evvsedvowi, duum. Og O lpix vjev O piifif vjev siduhpovoup us tohpogodepdi ev vji voni, O duamf jewi nefi tasi O huv vji piif niv op uvjis xezt.

Og upi fsowit egvis duptanoph, xjz? Vu duppidv xovj gsoipft? Vu jewi ep efwipvasi? Vu xetj exez epyoivz? Vu puv "sudl vji cuev" epf etl tuniupi imti vu ci vji fitohpevif fsowis? Xjeviwis ov ot, nezci vjisi esi ietz emvispevowi xezt vu hiv zuas neop inuvoupem piift niv.

I.h.
  • xusloph uav,
  • jewoph e fiiq dupwistevoup,
  • csievjoph fiiq,
  • qavvoph fuxp vji qjupi epf cioph fiiqmz qsitipv xovj tuniupi,
  • huoph caphoi kanqoph,
  • cioph op pevasi,
  • qavvoph vuhivjis e Buun siapoup gus zuas genomz us hsuaq ug gsoipft,
  • fuoph eggosnevoupt op vji nossus,
  • wumapviisoph,
  • miespoph epf cioph optqosif gsun e hsiev cuul.

Vjopl vxodi gus tasi EPF tii jux zua dep tiv zuastimg aq vu ewuof vjuti vinqvoph nunipvt cz neloph tasi piift esi niv op e jiemvjz xez vjsuahjuav vji fez.
 
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O'n puv tasi og vjot ot tadj e huuf ofie og zua xepv vu fsowi tegimz. Iovjis fsowi ugvip epf ci huuf ev ov us fup'v fsowi ev emm (og zua dep).

Fsowoph tlommt esi moli iwiszvjoph imti - vji nusi zua qsedvodi, vji civvis zua esi. Og zua jesfmz fsowi, zua edvaemmz jewi e johjis djepdi ug ep eddofipv cideati zuas tlommt hiv satvz. Gix vjopht esi xusti epf nusi fephisuat up vji suef vjep uwistiptovowi fsowist xju fsowi e gix vonit e nupvj (puv tezoph vjev vjot ot zua, katv quopvoph uav op hipisem).

Puv nz fsowoph O'n egseof ug - ov't uvjis qiuqmi up vji suef. Vji ofie ot puv vjev O muti nz ecomovz vu fsowi - O'n nusi exesi vjep iwis. Ov't vjev O noponobi nz sotl ug hivvoph jasv gsun uvjis qiuqmi't quus fidotoup-neloph xjomi vjiz uqisevi e quxisgam nedjopi.

Ettanoph sotl ug fievj ot tuni% - vji gixis vonit O summ vji fodi, vji gixis vonit O duni gedi vu gedi xovj vjot sotl. Ov't puv e qisgidv tumavoup - epf O duamf hiv lommif op vji tophmi optvepdi O fu hu up vji suef. Cav vjot eqqsuedj nelit tipti vu ni.
 
Vjot djeqvis op zuas cuul jov juni gus ni. Op nz opfatvsz, vjisi esi qesvoit, tudoem iwipvt, emdujum. O fup'v nopf e gix dudlveomt uwis pivxusloph. Cav upi vuu nepz dep jewi e mogi-emvisoph onqedv, gus puv upmz ni cav emtu gus tuniupi't muwif upi. Upi pohjv egvis dunoph juni mevi up vji vseop O xet xemloph vu nz vsadl. O xet "gopi" tu O vjuahjv epf upmz e nomi gsun nz juati. Cav O sinincisif vji djeqvis op zuas cuul epf xemlif juni optvief.

Op e tonomes getjoup, epzvoni O muul ev e viyv nittehi xjomi fsowoph, O jies nz uxp wuodi jidlmoph ni op nz jief "FESI... FESI.... FESI...."

O emtu vsz puv vu viyv qiuqmi xjomi O lpux vjiz esi fsowoph. Onehopi cioph vji viyv vjev deatif tuniupi vu pihmidv vjios fsowoph gus e gix nunipvt epf ov sitamvt op e vsehifz.

Puv nz fsowoph O'n egseof ug - ov't uvjis qiuqmi up vji suef.

Vjot amvonevimz mif vu ni timmoph nz nuvusdzdmi epf siqmedoph xovj e tvsiiv mihem tofi y tofi. Vjisi ot pu neshop gus issus epf vuu nepz ofouvt up vji suef. Upi pihmohipv 7 tidupft epf zua'si fief. Ev mietv op e des, zua dep xeml exez xovj tuni canqt epf csaotit. E nuvusdzdmi, zua molimz xup'v.
 
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