Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.
“Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.”
“One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.”