If anything at all is important to you, then it is possible to get hurt.
It's a vulnerability that just about everyone shares.
To really water it down, avoiding unnecessary physical pain is important to all but the masochistic. So when we fail to keep this important thing, we are quite literally hurt by it. If we didn't care about avoiding this, we would still be physically damaged to some extent, but probably not as surprised when it does happen. Probably a bit more apathetic about it too.
Another example is other people. Is someone important to you? If so, then you are vulnerable to being hurt for or by this person. If something unfortunate happens to them, then you feel bad for them and in a small way you are affected negatively by it. If you didn't care about that person, you wouldn't really care what happened to them. Also, if they inexplicably did something unfortunate to you, the amount of negative reaction to it would probably be based pretty much on how important of a person that was to you.
Now, understand, these are musings. I don't recommend avoiding getting hurt so much that you choose apathy as a way of life. At that point there's not much to go with. Getting hurt and having things important to you is part of life.
I guess that's obvious, but sometimes we need to write the obvious things down to really get them.
sorta
It's a vulnerability that just about everyone shares.
To really water it down, avoiding unnecessary physical pain is important to all but the masochistic. So when we fail to keep this important thing, we are quite literally hurt by it. If we didn't care about avoiding this, we would still be physically damaged to some extent, but probably not as surprised when it does happen. Probably a bit more apathetic about it too.
Another example is other people. Is someone important to you? If so, then you are vulnerable to being hurt for or by this person. If something unfortunate happens to them, then you feel bad for them and in a small way you are affected negatively by it. If you didn't care about that person, you wouldn't really care what happened to them. Also, if they inexplicably did something unfortunate to you, the amount of negative reaction to it would probably be based pretty much on how important of a person that was to you.
Now, understand, these are musings. I don't recommend avoiding getting hurt so much that you choose apathy as a way of life. At that point there's not much to go with. Getting hurt and having things important to you is part of life.
I guess that's obvious, but sometimes we need to write the obvious things down to really get them.
sorta
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