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Everything worth having in the world comes with a risk. Every great opportunity is essentially a great big gamble. And love, love is the greatest gamble of all. It involves risks that can destroy you as a person, but in return it offers you a happiness nothing else in the entire universe can ever rival. I guess that’s why each year millions of people take the risk, some are lucky they find something eternal, others well, they aren’t so lucky.

When you take a risk and you stake your heart and soul on the table. Sometimes you lose and when you do you can feel like you’re falling. Sometimes that feeling can consume you. Take everything you had and pit it against you. All you can do is helplessly watch. When you love essentially what you do is place your heart in the hands of another, and sometimes they underestimate how valuable, how fragile it really is. Sometimes they drop it and it shatters.

But the thing is, after such an ordeal some of us lose faith in love completely. We give up, we revel in what we have lost. Forgetting that your heart is never beyond repair. It merely requires the right parts and they happen to be in the hands of others. You see when you climb a tree to get the sweetest apple at the very top, you taste it and sometimes you fall having had the slightest taste of it. You can either decide that it’s not worth falling again for and just sit there, holding that bruised and ruined apple in you hands. Or you can realise how sweet such a fruit as love can be, and climb the tree again. Yes you may fall but a fruit so sweet deserves that risk.