RISK: The means to a satisfying life

”  Leo Buscaglia once said, “ to laugh is to risk appearing the fool, to weep is to risk being called sentimental, to reach out to 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 being called naive, to love is to risk not being loved in return, to live is to risk dying, to hope is to risk despair, and to try is to 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 becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live. Chained by his certitudes, he is a slave, he’s forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free.”

Take a risk today and do that thingy you’ ve been wanting to do …, failing once does not mean you’re a failure..it just means you’ve learnt a way not to do it…start something new, rekindle that old passion, dare to be different, take a risk, stand for a course because through it all..you’ll learn to feel, change, grow, love and live and that’s what life is about. If you risk nothing and do nothing, you dull your spirit.