The Hardest Thing

C.S. Lewis once said, ~Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries, avoid all entanglement. Lock it up, save it in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. Put it in that casket-safe, dark, motionless, airless- it will change. it will not be broken, it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, unredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.~ The most fragile part of the human body is a person's heart because it can easily be broken or torn apart. Initially one can be fooled so many times by love that a person considers it an illusion too good to be real.

Oftentimes, when a person checks into the proverbial heartbreak hotel, he or she tries their best to repair the remaining pieces of one's heart. If you think about it, a person can physically, as well as, mentally exhaust himself or herself trying to figure out the answer to the one question that keeps popping up which is, Why does this always happen to me? Inevitably, that reserve inner strength that a person could always count on may not always be there to comfort you. It's when one begins to put together the shattered hopes and dreams that were taken away, one tries to hold back the emotions that are starting to fester within.

During one's time of painful reflection, a person will go through a gambit of real emotions that can hit a person hard like a ton of bricks. Emotions such as confusion, sadness, yearning to be back with that guy or girl, bitterness, but most of all anger. One can feel absolutely betrayed for letting himself or herself open up one's heart only to have it close back up again either temporarily or permanently. For it’s when we share the most intimate details of your life to someone we feel comfortable around that the illusion of love becomes real and it's never easy getting over someone who meant so much to you at the time.

Let me ask you this question, who was that one person who broke your heart and truly affected you both mentally, physically, as well as, personally? It's that one person who when you start letting other guys or girls get close, you start pushing them away which can be a scary feeling for each of us. Consequently, a person can put a strong facade for friends and family, but deep down inside we are all fragile. In a way, our hearts can suffer so many cracks that it could possibly shatter into a million pieces. Yet, we risk it day in and day out as we meet that guy or girl who makes our heart skip a beat whenever you see or talk with him or her.

Someone once said, ~My heart is all black and blue from all the abuse it has been through. No more abuse, no more shame, all because my love for you isn't a game. I'm tired of all your lies, and all the crap you say. As I leave my love for you behind, my heart is screaming YAY. Yay for no more abuse, no more pain, and no more sorrow, now my heart can heal, but it won't be healed by tomorrow. How could I have been so blind to see how much loving you was hurting me? I don't care anymore because I am free from all the pain that your love has caused me.~ In the end, the hardest thing to ever protect from being hurt is our very own heart, which keeps on beating as each of us keeps moving on with life.