Oh, man. How do you tell 'em? How do you give them advice not to be vulnerable, not to give openly? That’s like telling someone not to be human. They who are most open most improve our world and are most ready to receive life's gifts, yet, at the same time, they are also the most vulnerable to disappointment, betrayal, evaporation, misunderstanding, unrequitement, and every other term that equates to loss. How do you teach newer people to avoid the pain you've experienced without also teaching them to be cold? You don't. You only hope that their luck will be better than yours and better than the luck of everyone else who has gone before. You hope that this new, beautiful, open creature is not destroyed as every other beautiful, open creature is destroyed. You hope that they are not replaced in time by a bitter, crushed, disillusioned, jaded, lonely idealist left wondering what happened—in other words, a typical adult.
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