It's Okay to Care Too Much

Accepting who you are doesn’t mean you should stay in situations that hurt you. I advise people, both strangers and close friends, to leave relationships when I think their care is unreciprocated or they clearly are unfulfilled. I think that if you find yourself consistently directing your love towards places or people that don’t love you back, you... See more

I think you can guide where your attention falls, but you can’t fundamentally change what you care about. Renunciation and abstinence are ways of managing obsession, not a way of ridding yourself of it.

I reflected that I am not close to a single person who doesn’t have an obsessive, heavy relationship with love.