“Life
will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone
won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You
have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth.
You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And
when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or
death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the
apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell
yourself you tasted as many as you could.” ― Louise Erdrich
This is just what I needed to hear. I think maybe it's time to open myself up to loving again. I'm not saying looking for it, but I'll be a bit more open. Scary stuff.
