Love's just an excuse for getting hurt.

Hello! I read the newspaper today and came across this really good article. Go read it, from lifestyle, Page 9, "Does crying ever solve anything?"

The article writes that some think the way to living a happier life is by having no or low expectations. Or some deal with loss and sadness by devaluing what is lost so its absence becomes less haunting, or analysing the loss at length to delay having to come to terms with it, or memorialise it and subsist on mementoes and memories, or deny the loss and live in the past, or blame everything on everyone around you to lessen the guilt, or find a substitute to help you forget. But the best advice the author would give is this: you can accept the loss and reconcile yourself to its reality. Allow yourself a good cry because it is human and okay to be sad, then pick yourself up and get a move on.

As she says, there's no other way, really, if you want to preserve your own sanity, difnity and well-being.

It's a rare read, and one of the few articles I'd read when looking through the papers. Go read it if you can, it'll teach you quite a lot.