Insight




To laugh is to  risk appearing a 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 a 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 risks may be taken, becuase the greatest
hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing does nothing,
has nothing and is nothing.
They may avoid suffering and sorrow but they
cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live.
Chained by their certitudes they are a slave,
they have forfeited their freedom.
Only a person who risks is FREE...