[Well, that wasn't the reaction he was hoping for. He backtracks hastily, wanting to find a better way to put his point across.]

I don't know your heart. I didn't mean it like that. I just...

[How does he say this right?]

Other people can't tell you how your life's going to work out. It's not as simple as there being two choices. You can choose to take more risks, but you don't know that will end badly. You could live a dangerous life and still die when you're eighty, or you could try and avoid doing anything there's a risk to and still get caught up in a freak accident.

So you shouldn't give up yet. It's too soon to make assumptions that's what's going to happen.