I was reading a book on the last leg of my flight back to DC on Monday night, and this quote just jumped out at me:
"I'm beginning to learn that anything worth having in life begins by taking a risk-love, marriage, childbirth, even loving one's neighbor as thyself. Risk is the universe's way of pushing us to become more than what we are. Risk is faith at the edge. Risk is the pulsating essence of life.
Without risk, we are automatons going through our days with no purpose or meaning. We are safer, perhaps, but we are also, ironically, closer to death."
- The Sleeping Beauty Proposal, by Sarah Strohmeyer
Good book, but by no means something everyone should read. I just happened to stumble across it in the fiction section at Barnes and Noble, otherwise known as "Michelle's Happy Place."
Anyway, this quote just really drew me in. I mean, it stands on its own, no explanation necessary. And it is something I have kind of lived by. I did fly across the country and start out on my own post-college with no friends or family around. But I think I have gotten too comfortable and stopped taking risks. I worry that I will become stagnant and that I will let my fears hold me back. These few sentences in a random book just reminded me again that the only way to win is to play the game.
So, though I can't see myself changing overnight, this is something I plan on keeping in mind and maybe using as inspiration.
Wish me luck!
