[conmat]

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental
To reach out for another is to risk involvement.
To expose feeling is to risk exposing your 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 failue.
But risk mus be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risk nothing does nothing, has nothinng, is nothing.
One may avoid suffering and sorrow, but one simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, live, or love.
Chained by certitude and safety, one becomes enslaved.
Only the person who risks is free.