Cynicism is love that got hurt once and was not tried again

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Cynicism is not a thinking style. It's a disappointment you never let yourself feel, and it settled into an attitude.

Here's the sequence. You care about something. It breaks. It hurts, so you move on quickly. The feeling doesn't go away. It becomes a general expectation that things will disappoint. Now it looks like realism.

A classmate once asked me why I cared so much, because it would never make a difference. He was trying to protect me. He was also the one with his shoulders slumped, tired, bored. He was living the life he was warning me about.

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Three sentences about one thing that went wrong. I cared about this. It hurt when it broke. I don't know yet whether to try again. Say all three. Book link below.