Pain is a funny thing. Physical pain is easy. Touch a hot pan, you learn not to touch it again. Fall out of a tree and break your leg, you don't climb so high next time. We do all that we can to avoid physical pain. We wear protective clothes when we do dangerous things. We don't take unnecessary risks. We want to protect our bodies so that we can continue to carry on living day to day.
Emotional pain is different. It hurts just as much as physical pain. It can be just as debilitating. A broken heart hurts just as much, if not more than a broken bone. Emotional pain can actually cause physical pain. We don't treat it that way though.We can't wear protective clothing on our heart. No matter how many times we've been hurt we keep going out and trying. We keep meeting people. We keep making similar mistakes. We keep hurting over and over.
So why do we do it? Is it that we're all emotional masochists? No, we're all addicts. We are quite literally addicted to love. The feeling of being love by someone special is a feeling that you can't get from any drug. The thought that there is someone out there who is thinking about you and hoping you are ok is amazing. The thought of being the most important person in someone's world is intoxicating. So we keep chasing our high. No matter how much it hurts, we keep going. Sometimes it works. A lot of times it doesn't. You still keep going hoping that someday you'll find that fix that will last forever.
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