Caution vs. Injury
No matter how nimble of foot, arm or body, how alert of mind, how superbly healthy one may be, one may easily make a false step, or repeat some unwise action once too often. Like the driver who secured the stage driving job over a mountain¬ous route in preference to others who boasted their ability to drive dangerously close to the edge of a precipice, you may be able to drive close to danger, but at the same time you should have sense enough to stay as fat away from it as possible. Your vitality may be at low ebb at the time you take yourunnecessary risk, so even though you may not be sent on your final long journey with speed and dispatch, you may not “pull through” so easily as you thought possible.
Even with the greatest of precaution and the best of health, accidents and disease may come upon one. Therefore, while avoiding worry, always be careful. It pays in the long run. The ex¬pression “It is better to be safe than sorry” has underlying it a great deal of wisdom.