Ultimately, you have to take risks or you sabotage your own growth. You learn it’s possible to take a risk and survive. It gives you courage.
“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it… It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.”
-from Erica Jong, on How to Save Your Own Life
Yes, risks are important. But one must always protect the heart. Some hurts are very hard to repair. Be careful.
You’re right, Gracie.
i personally think of my heart as a great desert, filled with sand and ghost cities, and an oasis with a chasm that has dwellings in the walls- and deeper than that there are monsters- deeper than this… a bright and radiant fire that burns for those that can find it… two people came close and one actually has found ways to flourish in it.
i am a great risk, others are risky i would say