Half my life, I’ve been protecting my heart so damn hard I subconsciously isolated myself. I haven’t grown cold, though, just wary.  I am not incapable of attachment, I’m just cautious. The thing that leads you to protecting your heart is that you start recognizing the patterns that once hurt you. You, being a good-natured human being and all, never understood what disrespect and mockery looked and felt like. So you gave out a lot of chances to the people who, often through jokes, put you down. The very people who kept taking advantage of your kindness thought they could do it endlessly, without consequences, and you kept giving them…