with winter formal only a day away... and valentine's day two, and with people blogging about and conversing about love and relationships. i can't help but think about this past year in terms of these.

sometimes i trick myself into thinking that love hurting is better than love not existing at all. and that "it is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all".
after a while though, if you lose enough, feelings of inadequacy, of ugliness take a foothold.
so perhaps it would have been better to never have loved at all.

you can always tell when valentine's day is in the air.