Love, now that was dangerous. It plucks your heart out of your chest cavity and throws it into the skies where all you can do is watch it freefall towards the object of your love, and hope he or she would catch it. And very often your heart would land with a sordid, painful thud on the ground, or worse, a ditch, and lie there forlorn, neglected and pitiful until you found it, picked it up, glued the various parts back together and put it back into your chest where it would continue to beat on, stolidly, with only you knowing that there was a beat missing. A beat audible to no discerning ear, but your own, a slight sense of being out of tune with yourself, a heart that beat reluctantly, for the sake of keeping up appearances, in the forlorn hope that some day it would get back in rhythm, that some day it would have something to beat for. And then, over the years of missing a beat, you would grown irretrievably out of beat with yourself, and end up discordant. Kiran Manral
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The idea that love is dangerous, that it is a risk you take when you pursue someone, and that it can cause you to be more vulnerable than you might otherwise be, is certainly something we can all relate to. Love makes us vulnerable. We are more likely to get hurt when we love, and we are even more likely to get hurt if we lose the love of our lives. But it is also true that love changes us in life, for better or worse.

Source: The Face At The Window

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