I love a person, but I feel bad about investing so much of my emotional state into something external that I cannot control, fundamentally. Stoic philosophy teaches us to keep things we cannot control outside of our emotional state. Stoicism teaches us to not be dependent on external things for our happiness.

Me and the aforementioned person love each other though, this much is true. Their kisses are like heroin, and their touch alone sends a shock through my flesh and into my heart.

I mean, not necessarily my literal heart, but their touch sends my entire brain into a frenzy. Axons and dendrites communicate, and a beautiful, unspeakable pattern, and my literal heart starts to beat at a much faster rate than necessary.