Have you ever been in love?
Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and
it opens your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess
you up. You build all these defenses, you build this 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 do 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 just be
friends' or 'how very perceptive' 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 body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart
pain. I hate love...
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