life

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~