What To Do?

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will certainly be wronged and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it in tacked you must give your heart to no one not even an animal. Wrap it carefully around with hobbies and little luxuries. Avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket of selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become un-breakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The only place out side of heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers of love, is hell.”

- C.S. Lewis

i highly believe this statement. and yet, sometimes i can't help but wonder what is so wrong with locking it in a casket...especially when one feels that their heart has been wronged and broken time and time again and they are sick of it...