This is an excerpt from "The First Days of School," one of my education textbooks, by Harry K. Wong & Rosemary T. Wong. It is one of the most powerful things I've ever read, and I thought I'd share 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 your feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas, your dreams, before a 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. Persons who risk nothing do nothing, have nothing, and are nothing. They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, or live. Chained by their attitudes, they are slaves, for they have forfeited their freedom.
Only a person who risks is free."
So what are you waiting for? A written invitation to participate in life? It's called a birth certificate.
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