New Passages: Living Life On The Edge Think about what comes to someone’s mind when you use the phrase “Living life on the edge.” More often than not, one would assume that you were speaking about a person who is a risk-taker. Perhaps they would think of a person who has a dangerous occupation, such as the man who extinguishes oil well fires. On the other hand, maybe they would think of a person who takes up a menacing hobby such as mountain climbing. Although this is the common usage of this phrase, Gail Sheehy in her book New Passages, proposes that all human beings are “living on the edge”. “That is how precario