Your essay makes me think about this quote from CS Lewis : “There is no safe Investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to 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 selfish-ness. But in that casket-safe, dark, motionless, air-less—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.”
Your essay makes me think about this quote from CS Lewis : “There is no safe Investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to 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 selfish-ness. But in that casket-safe, dark, motionless, air-less—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.”
Love this! Thanks for sharing 🩵
I honestly can’t wait for the next chapter, “My 7th Year Single”…
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"I know that if I’m lucky, I may once again risk heartbreak — all for the life-changing magic of falling in love." FELT
loved this!
This was gorgeous!
I love this! And relate to so much of it also having been single for several years now
Yup being single for a long time you definitely hope love everywhere 🤗😜