Throughout the course of our lives, we, inevitably, find ourselves making life changing decisions. We may or may not always be fully aware of how detrimentally life-altering a decision may be. However, we can acknowledge when we may be “pushing our luck”. “Pushing your luck” could mean you find yourself in a situation where there are two options. One option could be safe and have more of a predictable outcome. Whereas, the second option could be risky, unpredictable, and the outcome may not be favorable. When you choose the latter option, you are “pushing your luck.” Unfortunately, Liana from the fictional writing “Kilifi Creek” by Lionel Shriver and Ariel Levy, who was the main focus in the autobiography she wrote called “Thanksgiving in Mongolia” …show more content…
When she found out she was pregnant, she decided to go on one last adventure before really settling into motherhood. As a journalist who constantly traveled, Levy decides to go to Mongolia to interview people there while the winter there is running its course. Not only did she decide to go to a destination where “the nights drop to twenty degrees below zero” (Levy 3) but, she goes to Ulaanbaatar one of the top polluted capital cities in the world. Those two facts would have prevented most people, especially while pregnant, from going to that particular place in the world. Nonetheless, Ariel is a risk taker and still goes. Even on the plane when she experiences abdominal pain and still has a chance to take a flight back home, she chooses to stay. In this instance, I believe this is where Ariel Levy truly begins to push her luck. In another “luck pushing” instance, during the story she tells the reader, she paid a visit to a gay bar called, 100 Per Cent. Not only is a bar filled with unpredictable people that could possibly harm someone as vulnerable as a pregnant woman, but Levy mentions how people are smoking inside of the bar. It is a known fact that whatever you may inhale the baby could be affected by components in the air you breathe