- With life comes risks; you cannot have one without the other. Happiness—the unquestioned currency of life—is best measured by how one chooses to address those aforementioned risks and how much you allow said risks to dictate the trajectory your life will follow. Bottom line, you can be as brave or as cowardly as you want to be. You can live loud and brazenly like a lion or silent and timidly like a field mouse. You can roar in menacing fashion or you can go hide inconspicuously in a darkened corner and eschew any and all risks. No one else can determine the level of courage you choose to employ during your journey through life. That decision–easily the greatest and most transcendent decision any of us is ever asked to make–is entirely up to each individual. Thus, if you don’t like the direction in which your life is headed, for God’s sake don’t blame fate for it; blame yourself instead. You can exist at a stunningly rudimentary level analogous to a single-cell amoeba or you can proudly carry the banner of supernatural consciousness forward as a member of the human race. But you cannot do both at the same time; you cannot straddle this fence indefinitely; you ultimately have to choose between the two…..
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