Guard your heart

      "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, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable." 
     Honestly, this quote blows my mind because it's so true. In order to love, you must be vulnerable. You must be open and willing. But no matter what you do, you're going to be hurt. That's just how it goes. If you want to stay safe, guard your heart so that it can't be broken. CS Lewis wants you to keep your heart hidden and keep it locked up. Even if you keep it hidden, you'll be harmed. Because if it isn't broken in that box, its hardened and unable to be reached. Which is worse: a broken heart or a frozen heart?