-Ernest Hemingway
The Borrowed
July 7, 2010
“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.”
- Neil Gaiman
i never thought Neil Gaiman had that terrible feeling about love .. i admire him for his graphic novel Sandman and the books American Gods, Stardust and Anansi boys. I dislike this quote coz u know why? Because love makes you so vulnerable but it makes you stronger. Isn’t it? It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up, and after all that destruction it cause to you, you’re still lucky coz you were loved ones and will be loved sooner. 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.
But you can never tell how happy you are during that time when someone who you didn’t even know from the start had made you smile, had listened carefully to your thoughts, had put his hands over your shoulder, had made you feel that you are the most important person in the world, and perhaps had put you to the feeling of eternity.
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.
yeah it really hurts… but to tell you, i had never find true happiness than being in love
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.”
maybe you would but in time you’ll find the missing piece that will make you whole somebody..
Don’t get tired to be loved, to be in love and to get hurt. Coz this world was built for us to explore and make the most out of it.
Chang, cheer up….
Posted by mon parica at July 15, 2010, 9:59 pm