Live a little, live a lot

The more we try to enjoy life, and try things in life, the more we expose ourselves to the forces that be. While I am risk-adverse financially, emotionally I go all out: this means I expose myself more to other people's judgements and actions and while they may hurt, it is the only way to live. I live by e.e.cummings's lines:

since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
because life's no paragraph
and death no parenthesis

Candor, showing people who you are --and going out there like Lynn Ruth is doing-- is refreshing in a world that continually tries to cover up the truth or penalize people for speaking up and out. Fear should never motivate anything or anybody because if we give into fear, we give up on life.