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Temptation
Friday, August 23, 2013 at 1:32 AM
"Listen to me, would you please? Tell me why, if you feel that someone's getting close enough to reach you, you run away? You run away almost in an instant, not even giving them a chance to keep up with you. Why do you do that? Why are you so scared of getting hurt? Not everyone is going to hurt you and you know that. You know I won't hurt you. So why are you pushing me away?"
"I can't let you in, okay? I can't because if I do I won't let you out anymore. There's no escape, for you and for me. And we wouldn't want that, would we? We can't risk what we have for something with no guarantee. What if I only want you right now, at this moment when I can't have you? If I let you in there is no turning back. And you know what makes me mad? It is that even if this is the right thing to do, I don't know why I can't get you out of my mind. Why can't I get you out of my mind? Why are you messing with my head? I was okay until you came. I thought I was happy until you came. So just stay away, will you? Stay away from me. Because you make me happier than I already am and that is what scares me the most." |
“In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. Moreover, I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in a distant land to me. Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them. I trust that none will stretch the seams in putting on the coat, for it may do good service to him whom it fits.”
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