Thoughts bouncing around in my head.

"It is better to lose then to never have had."

I think this quote is the reason, as humans, we're willing to submit ourselves to painful situations. It's all about picking your poison. Subconsciously, in the end, we know that it will be more difficult to live with the pain of possibility---knowing that something might have happened if only we had been willing to try. We will always put ourselves in positions that will break our hearts, but what we're really doing is setting ourselves up to be healed again. It is only after we are broken that we are able to experience a kind of happiness far greater and more intense than the kind we experienced before our hearts were broken in the first place. Of course, the worst kind of heart break is perpetuated by someone or something we love. This reason for this is rather obvious. Anything or anyone that we love enough to hurt us, did enough good for us so that we were caused to love them in the first place.

We are sort of between a rock and a hard place. Though regret is the worst type of pain, vulnerability is nearly just as frightening. We're forced to choose. But I think the nature of being human is found within this quote. We're innately hardwired with the desire to progress and grow. But a bone is always stronger after it is has been broken. A muscle is more capable after it has been worn-out. If we're to grow, we've first got to be broken, so that we have the opportunity to be healed.