Risk Taking is Free
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 feeling 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, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk
nothing.
The person who risks
nothing, does nothing, has nothing, and in nothing.
A person may avoid
suffering and sorrow, bet one simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love,
live.
Chaired by certitudes,
one is a slave, one has fortified freedom.
Only a person who
risks…. is free.
Author Unknown