tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903848080840259127.post4571787252887755819..comments2024-02-16T14:10:12.166+08:00Comments on Bibliophile Stalker: Essay: Miscellaneous Real Life Insights (feel free to skip as it's not book-related)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903848080840259127.post-33322348691366071472011-05-15T16:00:35.840+08:002011-05-15T16:00:35.840+08:00I was talking with my crush and I told her the val...<i>I was talking with my crush and I told her the value of an early rejection is that it hurts less compared to when you break it to them later on, when they've built up all this hope and expectations.</i><br /><br />Yes. This. I call it "poison hope". If you had never hoped at all, then you wouldn't have felt the pain afterwards. Therefore, it is cruel to be "kind" to people in small ways when you don't intend to give anything more. It's like giving a person dying of thirst in the desert a glass of water, then driving away without taking them with you. Maybe that person had passed the point of pain already, but that small kindness, that glass of water, revived them enough to suffer through another round of dying of thirst. Instead of dying where you lay, you die 100 feet further into the desert.<br /><br />I understand completely.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com