Every time you decide not to risk whatever it is you think could happen, you abandon yourself.

Is there any greater risk than that?

Perfectionists in particular have such a hard time accepting the unavoidability of risk because of how riddled with imperfections the process is.

Risk requires you to accept failure as a possibility, where perfectionnism requires you to do everything in your power to remove all and any possibility of failure.

There is great comfort in taking a “leap of risk”. Everything you ever wanted could be on the other side of risk, waiting for you to cross and get it.

It is also quite liberating. Those who risk being laughed at have no fear, no place for peer pressure.

Risk requires you to take yourself seriously.

There’s a harsh truth here: No matter how hard you try, no matter what you do, or to which extent you protect yourself and your experiences to be as safe as it can be, you will be faced with risk whether you like it or not.

So, if risk is unavoidable and also makes the goal worth striving for, then at a certain point, you’re going to have to just risk it. Risk looking like a fool; risk being dead wrong; risk failing; risk the fucking inconvenience; risk the worst-case scenario.

Ultimately, you won’t have any other option.

Accept social injury.

Love, R. ♡