Any risk is not fatal (No risk is fatal)

            I guess I was searching for a way to avoid the impending heartache of separation, as I ran across this quote.   Maybe, I was looking for something to justify my already decided course.   I recalled my Uncle Benny (Bruno Czerkas) counseling me, as I sought advice while debating the course of my first marriage.   He asked, “Why are you sitting here talking to me?   You’ve already made up your mind.”   At the time I didn’t realize that I had made up my mind.   My course was set.   This simple quote reminded me that without taking a risk, one cannot pursue one’s dreams.   Even though I understand that some risks are indeed fatal; to live a life without risk is not to live at all.   To live a life freely chosen that is not your own is to live in Hell.   This led to a rather lengthy letter/essay entitled “Letter From the Gates of Hell” on the heels of an epiphany.

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