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. I hate love.