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Love is not about containing risks and remaining safe
These classes are about control, about risk avoidance. Do we think our chances of fulfillment in any other area of life are exclusively about avoiding pain? If not, why would a choice as important as whom we love come down to that?
No career advisor, to use the obvious "interviewing them like a job candidate" analog, would tell us that avoiding risk was the ultimate goal in a job search. That's not what life is about.
Sure, you don't behave recklessly -- but the moment when you let your defenses down has a whole lot more to do with love and the soul than anyone's list of screening questions.