01 | Philophobia ✓

𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨

B L U R B
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In which commitment phobe Scarlett meets Caleb. The boy who believes everyone has a soulmate.

      
E P I G R A P H
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❝Well now really when we go back to falling in love and say, it's crazy.

Falling, you see?

We don't say 'rising into love'.

There is in it the idea of the fall.

And, it goes back as a matter of fact to extremely fundamental things.

That there is always a curious tie at some point. Between the fall and the creation.

Taking the ghastly risk, is the condition of there being life.

You see, for all the life is an act of faith and an act of gamble.

The moment you take a step, you do so on an act of faith because you don't really know that the floor's not going to give under your feet.

The moment you take a journey, what and act of faith.

The moment that you enter any kind of human undertaking in a relationship, what an act of faith.

See, you've given yourself up but this is the most powerful thing that can be done, surrender.

See, and love is an act of surrender to another person.

Total abandonment.
I give myself to you.
Take me.
Do anything you like with me.

So, that's quite mad because you see it's letting things get out of control.

All sensible people keep things in control.

Watch it, watch it, watch it.
Security?
Vigilance?
Watch it.
Police?
Watch it.
Guards?
Watch it.
Who's going to watch the guards?

So, actually, therefore, the course of wisdom, what is really sensible, is to let go.
Is to commit oneself, to give oneself up and that's quite mad.

So we come to the strange conclusion that in madness lies sanity.❞

- The Red Pill, Alan Watts

          
S O U N D T R A C K
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Who Hurt You | Daniel Caesar
Godspeed | Frank Ocean
Fire on Fire | Sam Smith
Hold On | Chord Overstreet
Naked | James Arthur
Grace (Acoustic) | Lewis Capaldi
Burn | AJ Mitchell
Feelings | Lennon Stella
Wonder | Shawn Mendes

           
D E D I C A T I O N
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To those who fear commitment.
To those with the fear of heartbreak.
You are not alone.

            
A U T H O R S   N O T E
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This short story was written last year and because I wasn't all too comfortable with my writing, I took it down. It's been polished and edited (it's better in my opinion).

Every now and then, I love a super cute and cliche story and this is what this is.

I hope you guys enjoy it.

       
C O P Y R I G H T   &   D I S C L A I M E R
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Philophobia © 2020 Rhema.
All Rights Reserved.

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This story is a work of fiction. Every inch of this story was thought and brainstormed by me, the author. Any similarities to other people, events in real life or other books are purely coincidental.