“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
Learn to sit with vulnerability. Learn that potential heartache is the price you pay for the hope of ever attaining love. Recognise that the process of falling in love is difficult for everybody, and that people are putting themselves out there for you too. Learn to stay.
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