to love is to be human
What about nonchalance is pitifully enticing to some? The act of pretending to not care? Isn’t it human experience to love and feel?
To me, it seems these people are willfully relinquishing their agency and their capacity to be human. Holding yourself back from so many human experiences all for the petty thought of “protecting yourself”. You are a small speck in a universe that has lasted billions of years. And the only reason you even breathe is because generations of people have loved before you. Ironic isn’t it? The very sensitivities that made you whole is the same sensitivities you decide to restrain yourself from. Text that person, reach out, show your gratitude unannounced and unshackled by the cuffs of your insecurities. If sentiments aren’t appreciated then okay! You’ll live through the experience the same as many billions of other humans have. You’ll learn and feel as the people before you have. And the people before you had the same fears I’m sure, but their choices, heartbreaks, and experiences led up to you.
Reach out and love someone. Don’t be so scared of it. It would hardly mean as much as it does if it was forever. Forever is not why we do things, but the feelings and experiences that come with it. So let yourself go and be human.