Being so up tight because you are tired of that fake love people give and never giving your heart a chance to redeem itself and love all over again can be disasterous and lonely. Like the popular saying goes, "if it's meant to be, it will be".
Rumi once said "Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces."
In the same Vail,Henry Miller also had this to say about love "The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love."
Lao Tzu also believed "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
All this great scholars have one thing or the other to say about love and we can agree that given their different opinions, one thing they believed and agree upon is the fact that love in it's essence is a great feeling.
I have seen many people lose hope in love either because of their past relationships or family just to mention a few but the ultimate question remains what do you actually believe in: love,hope or nothing. I urge we preach love, live it and most of all feel it.