Risk Is Freedom
To laugh is to run the risk of looking foolish;
To cry is to take the risk of being sentimental;
Getting close to another person is to risk being compromised;
To show emotion is to risk being known;
To present to people your ideas and dreams are to put them at risk;
To love is to risk not being reciprocated;
To live is to risk dying.
If you allow yourself hope, you run the risk of becoming disappointed.
In any attempt to perform, there is the risk of failing;
But risks have to be taken,
Because the greatest danger in life is not to risk anything.
He who never take risks, does nothing, has nothing, and is nothing.
Maybe he can save himself suffering and pain, but he can't learn,
Or feel, or change, or grow, or love, or live.
Chained by uncertainty, he will be a slave, he will sacrifice being free.
Only by taking risks do you consecrate freedom.
- Author unknown -
