Anticipation Guide Response- The HOBBIT

Agree or Disagree?
It’s better to take chances and lose than to never take a chance.
I agree. For example if you are in a competition against someone and that someone is way better than you in what you are competing in, if you automatically say, “no I’m not going against this guy because he will beat me,” you instantly fail and lose. If you actually take a chance (because you know there is always a little chance it can happen) you maybe will beat him and realize that you were stupid to think of not taking a chance. On the other hand, you can also take a chance and loose. This is still a lot better than never taking a chance because if you take a chance and loose, you learn from what you did wrong and maybe a couple tries later you can beat him, for example. So in the end it is always good to take chances because if you don’t, there is a small chance of winning or gaining anything.

A life lived with fear is a life half lived.
I agree. I agree to this statement because if you live in fear all the time, you will never accomplish anything and will not gain anything in your life. You might be scared of going to a football game with all the hooligans and you will be scared that they will beat you up. But really, if you don’t go to that game, you will never know if that is true or not. You might even be scared to leave the house and that is the worst part of them all. You will not know anyone or gain anything and it is like living a half life. You always have to fight your fears in order to move on with your life.

Ignorance is bliss.
I disagree. I disagree with this statement because you must know a lot of things, again, to go through life. For example, you do not know how to use a fire extinguisher so if there is a fire one day and one child dies, and you could have done something to save him, you didn’t know how to use the extinguisher so the blame will probably go on you. Another example is the news. If you do not know what terrible things are going around in the world, you will not know how to overcome them and save yourself.
To be honest I also disagree with this statement. For example the news again, if you do not know anything terrible going around in the world, you will have nothing bad to think about and you will not have to worry.