Love and Risk Management.

I've learned some things about risk recently and so I'm writing about it, how it applies to life.

Investing involves a lot of risk.
But as you know, life itself is big risk.
So as we continue life knowing that we are about to face high levels of risk,
we should continue investing too.'

I should say loving, being a major part of life,
is a Big, Hairy, and Audacious Risk.
So i made an analysis on what people usually do due to risks of loving,
based on some important strategies that my trainer taught me.

Strategy 1: Risk Avoidance - Does this mean i should give up loving?
Pwede. I never had a special someone for some weeks now :)
And technically, i had stopped loving.
I avoided love.
I avoided the risk.
And right now, i have this feeling of emptiness :p
So i should say, lets scrap strategy number one.

Strategy 2: Risk Retention - This means accepting the loss when it occurs.
It simply suggests that we should love wholeheartedly and pre empt that we will lose it eventually.
We should give up everything for that one person
because, it is, love. Hopeless Romantic, hoping for a serendipity-turned-forever
drama, where shattered lives are found as an end result.
And this strategy tells us that we should
just accept the times that we lost our love ones when that time comes.
Plain acceptance of hurt.
Weep.
Be shattered.
And rise up again.
So traditional, but a possible course of action.

Strategy 3: Risk Transfer - Causing the other party to accept the risk.
A very good example of this, in real estates,
is insurance policy.
In quick thinking, i got what this strategy suggests,
particulary in love: Reserve. This strategy involves:

1. Loving 2 or more people at the same time,
for an obvious reason that if one relationship fails,
you had prepared a contingency measure. A fallback.

2. Loving another person when you feel that your present relationship might
crash any moment. A pre empted rebound.

Strategy 4: Risk Reduction - Minimize Risk. 'Be a minimalist', to quote somebody.
This strategy can be portrayed by the function of sprinklers,
that is primarily designed to minimize risk of losing office assets by fire.

Investment Managers would often recommend this strategy to
protect their individual assets.
Well, as for me, this strategy is contemporary yet most effective.
It is relationship preservation.
It is implementing preventive measures to keep a healthy relationship.
It has the "sprinkler" function to minimize the
risk of unsuccessful relationship.

Remember important dates/anniversaries/birthdates.
Know his friends.
Send her a card.
Send him roses.
Give her chocolates.
Give him a massage.
Talk to his mom.
Give a picture collage.
Set dinner with her boss.
Cook a special dish.
Hug him tight for seconds.

These are just simple things that
would matter to him and may rejuvenate the love
that you had.
Surprise him everyday.
Be a one minute manager.

Strategy 4 works best for people who are in a relationship now.
But since im not into it right now,
im turning the switch on for Strategy 2 :)

So no matter who you
are, take the risk of knowing me.
I'm taking the risk of knowing you too.

Wala lang...kyut no? :)

Taken from Chitto Relleta's FB Notes.