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You spend your whole life protecting an image of yourself that doesn’t exist in reality.

You refuse to try because then you might look foolish. You might look weak. You might look dumb.

Not trying allows you to keep living a lie.

How convenient.

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Gems of Italian Wisdom from Pippo the Italian Cat
Chi non risica, non rosica.
“The one who doesn’t risk, doesn’t nibble.”
Pippo says: This means the same thing as “nothing ventured, nothing gained.” Like when I first came to my new home. I stayed in my bunker in the bathtub for days. Who knew what lurked beyond? Then I decided chi non risic…