It doesn't, no. But speaking from personal experience, if you spend all your time worrying about what could happen, then you won't get to do the things you actually want to do.
Twelve or thirteen, somewhere around there. That's about the age when kids start working real jobs where I'm from. But Onni, he gets scared of stuff easily, especially if it's stuff he doesn't know well. So he tried his best to be brave about it, but you could tell he was nervous about messing up. Shearing a sheep isn't easy, it's a live animal after all!
So our parents got him one of the younger sheep, figuring he could manage a small one on his own. But when he got close with the shears, the sheep ran right at him!
[It was pretty close to the size of her brother, yeah. But upon seeing that face, she laughs.]
It's fine! The sheep have a lot of wool on them, they're a lot smaller and skinnier when the wool is shaved off. But they try to intimidate people by charging at them.
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I don't think my watching will change anything, but at the same time... if I end up there... it seems like something to know about.
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Let's go do something else then, okay? So you have something else to think about, at least for a little while.
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[Guide him?]
Or... do you have another story?
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[To make up for the lack of happy today.]
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[Please tell him a nice story.]
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[He will follow Tuuri to wherever she would like to go.]
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I think I know just the right one for today too: the story of the first time my brother Onni sheared a sheep.
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How old was he when he did this?
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So our parents got him one of the younger sheep, figuring he could manage a small one on his own. But when he got close with the shears, the sheep ran right at him!
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Right at him? How big is a sheep?
[How scary was this for a guy?!]
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It's a little intimidating when you're only thirteen though! Onni dove out of the way and landed in some mud.
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It's fine! The sheep have a lot of wool on them, they're a lot smaller and skinnier when the wool is shaved off. But they try to intimidate people by charging at them.
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[He is intimated by animals rushing at him.]