To laugh is to risk
appearing the fool,


to weep is to risk
appearing sentimental,


to reach out for another is
to risk exposing the true self.


To place your idea, your dreams
before a crowd is to risk 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 at all is to risk failure.



But risk we must



because the greatest hazard
in life is to risk nothing.



The person who risks nothing,
does nothing, has nothing, is nothing.



You may avoid suffering - but you cannot learn,
feel, change, grow, love or live.



Chained by what is certain,
you are a slave.
You have forfeited freedom.


only the person who risks can be called FREE.

*guess i can't b called free...cos i dare not take risks..