But remember, please, that some of what glitters actually is.

Sometimes, we downplay the value of wonderful, important things, and I think that we only do this because we're scared of investing all our faith in it. Everyone knows that you don't put ALL your faith in one place, that's stupid, of course it is!! But instead, what that mentality has bred is a society who can't trust anything.

It's statements like this that caution responders: don't be too hopeful or too optimistic, make sure you maintain a measure of pessimism JUST so you can say you cut your losses.

But it doesn't work that way, does it? At the end of the day, this whole "healthy dose of cynicism" thing, it's just a cover up. All we really want to DO is trust people, is invest in them, is love them for who they are. I really DO believe that this is what we were meant to DO as humans, and exactly why it still hurts so much to have your heart broken, to have your judgment fail, to have your trust betrayed.

I realize that with this post, I am in essence shatting all over my OWN personality....I'm that chick who studies her ASS off for a test and then says, "Meh, stuff it, I didn't study anyway," when she doesn't do well in it. It's because I hate admitting that I put everything I had into something and it STILL blew up in my face.

But you know what? I'm gonna try and not do that anymore, because I think the happiest people are the ones who KEEP investing and investing and investing and failing and failing and failing. It doesn't BUILD you, because that would be too twee, too trite.

It breaks the hell out of you and then makes you build yourself.

Queen Sana at 3:47 PM