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This leaves us only to deal with those inevitable risks, even these
risks, the moment we are able to identify them, they have to cease to
be risks because the very identification also leads us to planning and
preparation as to how to tackle them. So the only risks that we need
worry at all about are those that have escaped the ken of our
perceptions and imaginations. They are the negative and mysterious
surprise elements of any activity or subject. Having thus embarked on
the preamble of what constitutes risk let us proceed to study the topic
of this essay personal and family risk.
Again here we have two entities personal and family. First let me take
the word personal.
It comes from the Latin persona meaning ‘the mask used by actors’. It
is indeed a mask made of so many things that hides the real ‘you’.
Here I would like to take the definition of Allport, who reviewed
roughly fifty different definitions of personality before creating his
own, “personality is the dynamic organization within the individual of
those psychophysical systems that determine his unique adjustments
to his environment” (1937, p. 48). Biologically the very birth starts
with the risk as a sperm cell you risked being nudged and pushed
away by other cells but then overcoming that risk you entered the
fallopian tube and found the egg to emerge as a living and lovely
being.
But once you are out of the womb you grow by interacting in a specific
environment with you own mask of inherent and acquired abilities,
attributes and attitudes and this growth entails lots of risks as the
environment may not and need not necessarily gel with your mask.
These risks may vary from person to person and environment to
environment, they are mask-specific and so cannot be generalized.
However for easy administration of remedies to the risks that the
individual masks [persons] are likely to face in social living we can
broadly categorize them. For want of space and out of concern not to
bore the reader too much let me resort to broad categorization.
Ultimately and most vitally both personal and family risks have more
to do with psychological perceptions and sociological adjustment than
they have to do with economic parameters. External parameters can
always be injected like hygienic environment, better economic
condition etc but the inner willingness to adopt to them for
betterment is required. Therefore any publicity or persuasion must
appeal to the socio psychological aspects of life. In short the risks can
be minimized when everyone is educated to realize that life is a
constant process of adjustment and learning.