Accounting / Risk / Poem

During the accounting class on Wed, Prof. Stewart shared with us a beautiful poem as the closing of this session on Risk Managment:

Risk - Author Unknown

To laugh is to risk appearing a fool

To weep is to risk appearing sentimental

To reach out to another is to risk involvement

To expose feeling 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 at all is to risk failure

But risks must be taken

because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing

The person who risks nothing has nothing and is nothing

The person may avoid suffering and sorrow

but cannot learn, feel change, grow, love, life

Chained by attitudes he/she is a slave, and forfeits freedom

Only a person who risks is free.