an invisible weapon that's deadly, it tears you up emotionally.

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defences, you build up a whole suit of armour, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love take hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like "Maybe we should just be friends" turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul- hurt. a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain.

got the above chunk from a friend's blog whom adapted it from an article of the newspaper. funny how accurate it is about love & yet we still allow ourselves to be encircled by this wonderful emotion.
i for one am willing to be the victim under its knife, oh the irony.