it's okay to care too much - by Ava - bookbear express

What I like most in people is a sense of heaviness. Some of my close friends are gregarious while others are shy and restrained, but all of them have big feelings and an incredibly complex inner world. If you opened them up and reached in you would never get to the bottom. A while back my friend said that her therapist mentioned that she might be addicted to love. She found it to be a distressing thought. In turn, I reflected that I am not close to a single person who doesn’t have an obsessive, heavy relationship with love. I know that there are other people out in the world who think there are more important things, and I find that to be a funny thought. These days, I try not to pathologize my own obsessions. 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. Often, acceptance is what finally allows us to move on. I’ve always cared too

What I like most in people is a sense of heaviness. Some of my close friends are gregarious while others are shy and restrained, but all of them have big feelings and an incredibly complex inner world. If you opened them up and reached in you would never get to the bottom. A while back my friend said that her therapist mentioned that she might be addicted to love. She found it to be a distressing thought. In turn, I reflected that I am not close to a single person who doesn’t have an obsessive, heavy relationship with love. I know that there are other people out in the world who think there ar