"You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-You-Are? You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, "Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness." You call yourself a free spirit, a wild thing, and you're terrified somebody's going to stick you in a cage. Well, baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somaliland. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself." (Breakfast at Tiffany's)
Holly Golightly, you and I are far from being similar people, but I feel you on this one. Terrified of being trapped, terrified of losing one's freedom, of losing the ability to just pick up and go wherever whenever--and all this fear driving one away from intimacy and relationship to be on one's own. And while those of us who know Jesus know that falling in love is not the only chance anybody's got for real happiness, running away from relationships because of fear is definitely not the answer. Especially when the real problem isn't "out there" or with someone else. It's within.
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See you in a few days friend! Any new reflections since the post?
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