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