Oh, man. How do you tell 'em? How do you give them advice not
to be vulnerable, not to give openly? That’s like telling
someone not to be human. They who are most open most improve our
world and are most ready to receive life's gifts, yet, at the
same time, they are also the most vulnerable to disappointment,
betrayal, evaporation, misunderstanding, unrequitement, and every
other term that equates to loss. How do you teach newer people to
avoid the pain you've experienced without also teaching them
to be cold? You don't. You only hope that their luck will be
better than yours and better than the luck of everyone else who
has gone before. You hope that this new, beautiful, open creature
is not destroyed as every other beautiful, open creature is
destroyed. You hope that they are not replaced in time by a
bitter, crushed, disillusioned, jaded, lonely idealist left
wondering what happened—in other words, a typical adult.
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