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"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets inside you and rips you apart pain."
To love someone is to give them the power to destroy you, but trusting them not to. What we seek is not always what we find, and many learn this the hard way, for love is a poison. Love shakes your foundation, and changes you from the inside out. You can recall every aspect of that person - they way they taste, the way they walk and the quirky little things they do, memorizing their entire being suddenly doesn't feel so strange. Reality starts to seem as if it is better than any dream you could have, and you become addicted. It's as if they've left some sort of drug in you, a drug called love, and you're dead of anything else.
To love someone is to give them the power to destroy you, but trusting them not to. What we seek is not always what we find, and many learn this the hard way, for love is a poison. Love shakes your foundation, and changes you from the inside out. You can recall every aspect of that person - they way they taste, the way they walk and the quirky little things they do, memorizing their entire being suddenly doesn't feel so strange. Reality starts to seem as if it is better than any dream you could have, and you become addicted. It's as if they've left some sort of drug in you, a drug called love, and you're dead of anything else.