“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 entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To #love is to be vulnerable.” C.S Lewis I wholeheartedly want to keep my insta fun,yet the overwhelming majority of DM's I went through recently revolved around love. I talked about this in depth in an article titled "The things people call love" check it out. If u want to continue with ur insta scrolling bliss and yet u're interested in this then here is a quick take. I believe that a man's optimal situation in life is to be grossly ignorant to love, the kind that goes "fuck that shit, fuck em and next em!" It's an assholish behaviour, but I think it's a safe spot for a guy. if, and only IF he's doing it out of ignorance and not out of resentment. u see, ignorance is a fuckin bless. If u have zero intrest in love because u've never tried it and it doesn't appeal to you, then congrats u're set. But if u think that because of X reason, then u're kinda fucked. Being ignorant means u've no conflicting thoughts in ur head, u're at peace with what u know and have no interest in rethinking it. On the other hand, if u push away a feeling because of X reason, that means u have a world of conflict in ur head whenever that feeling comes. Put simply: when u're afraid and u don't want to be afraid u'll have a conflict in ur head trying to push away fear, that conflict usually revolves around courageous and reassuring thoughts. So to push away fear we think courageous thoughts. To push away sadness we think happy thoughts. But when we try to push away love? What thoughts do we think? Hateful, hateful thoughts. We hate the person, ourselves or the situation, doesn't matter we opened a door for hate, and it'll grow into resentment and a life of bitterness. And now I am out of characters 😅 Fuc (at Amman, Jordan)