To laugh to to risk appearing the fool

To weep is to risk appearing sentimental...

To reach out to another is to risk involvement.

To expose feelings is to risk exposing 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, and is nothing.

He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel change, grow, love, live

Chained by his certitudes, he is a slave, he has forfeited freedom.

Only a person who risks - is free

P.S.

I'm older than you, this is wisdom speaking...Seb Cox