This was on an email I received today - and I had to share..... hope y'all like it


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 feelings 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 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 is nothing.

They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live.

Chained by their certitudes, they are a slave, they have forfeited their freedom.

Only a person who risks is free.
--Leo Bascaglia

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daMN i felt that -n- i know how it feels. to risk -n- lose

I hear you gurl - and you know what - I would risk it all again to feel as good and as loved as I do now!!!!!!!!!

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am not to sure on that part

who is that towards??????

This was a nice one, long ago, Jel.

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If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame...

Loved this....it is very profound!

I think its a nice one even now......

And my own thoughts from back then still stand even now....

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By long ago, I just meant as an old post. I sometimes hate to bring up old posts cause people get all up in arms sometimes and it was originally posted years ago. Just trying to point that out in the beginning.

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If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame...

.....a whe di **#&$"@#*......!!!
wha'pen to yuh gyal???

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I don't think there's anything negative about it neither....at all. However I do think it contradicts itself considering the source. People risk their inner selves every day and then get sh*t on, made fun of, harrassed and called out for it!

Let's try to keep any personal attacks out of this thread peeps or I will lock it. Thank you.

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Well at least I gotta give credit where its due.....being out in the open with crap is much more admirable than behind closed doors.

With re-consideration... I have re-opened this thread. This is a great poem with a lot of meaning behind it.

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