It’s true. If you don’t risk doing something that you really want to try and do, you lose the opportunity to develop skills in becoming proficient, and, perhaps, even an expert in it. You lose out on learning about the subject. You lose out on making connections with interesting people who might have made great companions. You lose out on learning more about yourself and how you work. Most importantly, you lose out on the opportunity to enhance your self-worth and confidence in accomplishing a goal or in doing or being something you never thought you could possibly do or be.
Self-confidence is an incredibly powerful virtue to develop. It's an immune booster. It strengthens and protects your spiritual, mental, emotional and physical well-being, so that when life offers you "lemons", you can make lemonade.
It takes less energy to try something - to reach out and risk failure or loss - than it does to sit back and do nothing, wondering what could have been if you had just tried, beating yourself up - which, we have all seen, can take many forms - for not girding your loins and doing whatever you wanted to do, in spite of the fears. For the rest of your life, you will always wonder, “what if…”
Risk it. Risk failing. Risk losing. Risk rejection. Risk humiliation. Otherwise, if you don’t risk living a life beyond fears, you risk everything that you are and can potentially be, and that is the greatest loss of all, not just to you, but also to the world.
So, go ahead! Risk a life worth living. Dream yourself to be, and do, the best that you can imagine for yourself. Then the miracles will happen, and living becomes almost effortless and deeply fulfilling, for yourself and for those around you.
Peace and love.
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