Compare and Contrast: Willingness to Take Risks

What is considered a risk? Everyday some think risk is jumping out of an airplane while another may be simply take a leap of faith and ask another on a date.
For me, the level of willingness just to approach a stranger and say, "Hello," is slim to non-existent. My palms sweat, and I become flustered before I even make the attempt. Worries of what I'm going to say, what I should do, cloud my brain. Even worse, the possibilities of how the other person will react fill my head and cement my feet. A task like this is what I consider a significant risk.
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