Hello everyone.
        I am reading a new book called "No Excuse!" by Jay Rifenbary.
        In the introduction to the book, he has put in the following 
        message by an unknown authur that seems to be the message that 
        we have heard many times over but maybe never understood the
        wording or form the message was delivered in. Here is what it says.
                                RISK TO BE FREE
                        To laugh is to risk appearing a fool.
                        To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
                        To reach out for another is to risk exposing
                        your true self.
                        To place your ideas, your deams 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 need to be taken because the greatest hazard of life is
        to risk nothing.  The person who risks nothing, is nothing.  He may
        avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, 
        grow, love...live. Chained by his beliefs, he is a slave; he has      
   forfeited freedom. Only a person who risks is free.
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        Personal suggestion........
        Learn to take risks that can and will profit you in ways that money
        cannot buy.  It can be a lonely world with a shallow thought pattern
        of "I can't do that!" or "Thats too hard!" or any of the other 
xcuses
        that we have all heard and used many times over to avoid taking risks
        and feeling pain.
                                                Marty
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