Risk  
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.  
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 at all.
The person, who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, and is nothing.
They may avoid suffering and sorrows but they can not 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.  

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See I have a serious side as well!

LM

This is like watching Al Gore do the Macarena during the '96 Olympics (or actually just the opposite).

Who ever you are, good advice.  But you better release the real Lustman before we call 911.

G2, does this show (ahem) another side of you as well, my dear?  A funny side...My goodness, I never thought of myself as a little snippet, chasing you about the board tormenting you with such.

;->

(cut that woman loose, G2!!)

xoxo

ff