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.