Risks
To laugh is to risk
appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk
appearing sentimental.
To reach out for another
is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to
risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas, your
dreams before the crowd, is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk
despair.
To try is to risk
failure.
But risk must be taken,
as the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The
person who risks nothing does nothing, and is nothing.
He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot
learn, feel, change, grow, love, live. Chained by his
certitudes, he is a slave; he has forfeited freedom.
Only a person who
risks... is free. |