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I too have witnessed this in my family. It takes time to develop the strength you're talking of, abaya. I also agree that being "in love" is overrated...and can be worse for you in many situations. It is important to know yourself and have the confidence to be an individual. As for giving in to dangerous emotions...myself I try to be open at all times but I try to always be aware and realize when the moment has come to hold back, then move on.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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