Life was designed to break a person, and not a soul could protect another person from all the hurts that there were. He had once believed that if he was able to just isolate himself that he would be safe. He had been alone and tried to live that way, his heart protected from hurt, and all that solitude had brought him was to make him yearn to understand what others felt. But love and to feel was not a process that one could do without risking that hurt, inviting it in.