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MY HOPES AND FEARS Hopes and fears is a subject that people don’t often talk about, let alone write about. They feel private and personal, not the kind of thing you share with just anyone. But when you actually analyse your hopes you realise that for them to become a reality, you have to share them. And to reduce your fears you must face them and examine them and abolish them.
William Arthur Ward wrote; To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self, to place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss (…)To hope is to risk despair, To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing
This is one of my favourite poems because I think the words are so poignant and so entirely relevant to everyone and everything. Whilst no one wants to be defined by their past, but it is the decisions that we made up until the present day that have shaped us and brought us to the place we are right now. The past has lead you to this moment, and it’s this moment that you can control and change. In this moment you can become the person you want and hope to be in the future.