To Love Is To Be Vulnerable

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. 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

Love is not a feeling. It’s an action.

And any time you take an action, you take a risk. You risk that this action might not work out.

If you love nothing, then do nothing.

If you love something, then gotta DO something. The first step is to open your heart and be vulnerable. Consequences be damned.