How to break your own heart

First, have no self confidence. You’ve got to be sure of that. Then, befriend the most traumatized people you can find. You can tell when people are traumatized by their sense of humor. Delight in their mischievousness. Let them squirm their way into your personal life, let them nap on your bed. Allow them to manipulate you. Succumb to their bidding for years, and slowly fall in love with them. Have adventures and create memories with them. Impressions that will haunt your soul. Then, just once, allow yourself to be completely vulnerable to them. Finally put yourself at their mercy and allow them to betray you. Let them break your heart. Because if you don’t, you never loved them in the first place.