All growth is a leap in the dark. If you’re afraid of that, you’ll never do anything worthwhile. If you take counsel of your fears, you’ll never take that step, make that leap. The times we could have said something. The bets we should have placed. The people we might have met. The lessons that would have been learned. The battles that were never won. What if there was certainty, if there was a well-lit, well-defined path? If life were like this, no courage would be required.

