If love is going to destroy you regardless, honey, you might as well feel the rain AND the fire while you’re at it. The optimists say, “Love like you’ve never been hurt.” The pessimists, on the other hand, will tell you to proceed with caution, guard your heart, to avoid love at all cost… To be honest, that’s me, the latter. That’s been me one hundred percent of the time. No shame in the cynical game.
It takes time to recover and rationalize what just happened; what you and your heart went through. But once you’re at a safe point in life again where (though you don’t necessarily trust a lot of people) you understand that heartache can be circumstantial and everyone involved may be at fault, you open up a bit more.
We’re all living with these doubts and uncertainties in our heads, but I don’t think putting up walls helps the cause. That’s one thing I’ve learned through my own “rediscovery of self” process. Okay, let me clarify something; it helps when you’re trying to protect your sanity and trying to figure out who should or shouldn’t be in your life, but the fact is life will continuously happen. I think the sooner we accept that heartbreak is a part of life and learn how to deal with it, the better. Loving like you’ve never been hurt is a tough one. But, it’s possible. So, I say f*ck it — love anyway.
