All The Things I've Never Said Before - Part 5

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I am afraid of welcoming new people into my life. We end up scared of letting people in out of fear of getting attached to them. The reason for this is the fear of one day letting go, the first thing we think of doing is protecting ourselves. We stay away from those when we are about to get attached, this can be so hard because we tend to avoid the possibility of being happy. There's always this slim chance that something may worsen and we'll end up being caught right in the middle of it and having to choose between what type of pain we should endure and what kind of pain we can stand. It's the type of pain that is usually caused by feeling unhappy and loneliness, if it's a new type of pain one we haven't been exposed to yet is one no one will ever be strong enough to stand against, and that's the pain of letting go