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Originally Posted by tecoyah
...By experiencing many loves in life we are far more likely to learn what love can be, and suffer repeatedly because of these lessons, love is not a safe place to be. But the double edged sword is definately in play here, because in my opinion it is the very act of suffering through loss, and the sorrow lost love can bring to us, that we become capable of truly respecting this emotion for what it can mean....
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Amen.
Last night I was thinking about that trite phrase, "Better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all" (I know it doesn't exactly fit in this thread, but bear with me).
It is certainly true, but I was wondering if the people who blithly parrot it truely understand (and by understand I mean, have lived it) the depths, the darkness, and the suffering that loving can engender. If they do, and they still say it, then I salute them.
This is a little deeper than the OP intended, I think.
My thought is that it's the mindset of the person performing the actions that makes it what it is. If this dude is a happy-go-lucky, testing out the waters, looking for a partner type of guy, albeit rather aggressively by most standards, then it's a live and let live kinda thing.
If he's got a negative, self-destructive, "I don't deserve anything better than X" attitude, then, well, that defines his actions.