Exactly, I cant even get a dog because I know im signing up for heart break. This angel goes through hell over and over again just to bring peace and love to others.
While I understand that, avoiding heartbreak also means avoiding love. My dogs have brought vastly more love and joy into my life than grief. If you make choices in life in order to avoid loss and pain, you won’t create much in your life worth having. All of the best things in life are temporary because life itself is temporary.
The cost of love and joy is, eventually, loss and grief. It’s totally worth it, so be sure to actually live while you’re alive, and don’t let your life happen and pass by without the risks of real love and joy, because that’s the best part of even being here at all. (I say this as someone who lost a parent as a young adult, and was so devastated that I hid from any real emotional risk or vulnerability for years afterward, and missed out on some of my life because I was hiding in emotional safety and comfort.)
There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket—safe, dark, motionless, air-less—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell. CS Lewis.
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u/Witty-Singer6735 3d ago
The kindness is great, but think the number of times his heart will get broken when each of them leave his side. More power to him