Taking risks... to what extreme?

Hi everyone! Lola here!

"What's life without a few risks?"

The question is: how far can one go with risk-taking?

I'm personally not much of a risk-taker. As I said in a previous post, I'm prone to over-thinking situations down to the slightest details (which isn't always a good thing to do) and I like to know the outcome.
This means that I'll avoid risks because I won't know for sure what the outcome will be.

I was raised as a Miss Goodie-Two-Shoes. I've been leaving that area over the past year, but that part of me still remains in some way.

In this post, I wrote the ridiculously unrealistic plan I had last year instead of continuing University.
One of the reasons that plan was very unstable was that it was full of risks. The idea alone of quitting University was a very risky thing to do, and I realized this only a few months back, so I decided to throw it away and try and at least finish my year.

I've had other ideas for jobs, but they all involved drawing comics, becoming a photographer, becoming a writer,.. in short, anything that could only be achieved by luck and that would be very risky to try and get a full-time job with.

On the other hand, I took a risk a year ago. I decided to go to University to study languages instead of an art. It was risky, because I didn't know what I was in for and, for all I knew, I might have hated it.
I have come to realize that I'm very lucky to speak three languages and be able to get a good diploma with them to land myself a steady job with a future. Now and then, I started to regret it and wanted to study an art instead, but I knew that the best thing was to stick with what I was doing.
In the end, I didn't regret it.

What about you? How far do you go for taking risks? What's the biggest risk you've taken that has affected your life?
 Feel free to share your stories too! ^^

Thanks for reading; keep on dreaming!
~ Lola out!