quoted...and re-quoted " the thought of being in love has once too often crossed our minds. but the thought of being attached also makes us cringe."
WHY IS IT SO?
being in love creates the illusion of simple sweet bliss.
euphoria and contentment.
while being attached is often condemned with suffocation and pain.
and often, eventually ending with heartache.
being in love feels great, but sometimes the attachments that come with it just suck. [thus the term being attached]
there's always someone who comes along and spoil it.
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 someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so 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 don'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 a simple 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.
Rose Walker, in Sandman: The Kindly Ones by Neil Gaman
jiLL divulged at 10:56 PM 0 Comments