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Umbreon posted...

You can heal from heartache, but to forever hide yourself from love? You're already dead,

I think this type of narrative is dangerous and also is part confirmation bias. There are people who don't seek "love" and there people who would but they cannot. For example there was a guy who lived 70 years stuck in a giant metal tube. That is an extreme example but there is many people whose lives are dictated around things like this. For example Ironmouse herself is virtually bedridden and sees the world through livestreaming.
To say if they didn't go seek out love, they didn't live, is simply just stupid.
There is so much to life, much more than romance. Infact many who find romance even are found to regret it.
But this hard truth most people shy away in fear of the confirmation bias of normalcy and being ostracized by those who practice it. Watch someone call me an incel for writing this for example.

But many people are essentially brainwashed into this idea and seek it out whether truly genuine or not and find deep regret as they may have been people better without it. Others in the same boat will lie to themselves. And others will find happiness through it. People are all different and see the world in different ways. Not to mention what is love to you or me is not the same to others or perhaps even to either of us.
Anyways it just made me think of that old saying "Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."
It is purely poetic yet society has ingrained it as a truth that is not actually a truth and people will fight for the idea that it is.