Life will break you.
Nobody can protect you from that,
and living alone won’t either,
for solitude will also break you
with its yearning
You have to love.
You have to feel.
It is the reason you are here on earth.
You are here to risk your heart.
You are here to be swallowed up.
And when it happens
that you are broken,
or betrayed,
or left, or hurt,
or death brushes near,
let yourself sit by an apple tree
and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps,
wasting their sweetness.
Find strength in knowing they are bound to fall
but that you yourself
tasted as many as you could.
.
~Unknown~