"The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise."--Tacitus
I admit it--I like safety. I like security. I'm conservative in investments, whether they be financial or other. Safety and security are good, up to a point. Then they can become stifling.
Eighteen years ago, my husband and a friend jumped off a cliff to start their own business. There was little safety and no security in such a venture, but they had a dream, a vision, of what that business could become. Eighteen years later, that two-man operation, housed in one room above a bar, is now a thriving engineering concern, shipping several million dollars of product a year.
There have been lean years, and there will probably be more lean years ahead. Cash flow and other problems beseige the business, but they presevere. And still, I cling to safety. But safety, while giving the illusion of security, can be a trap.
So, for today, I am grateful for those who defy safety to achieve "great and noble enterprises."
Who would have thought that the business would still be up and running and so successful 18 years later? It was definitely a risk but one that paid off, I believe.
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