corner. Or if you are still stuck to the one you insist to be your ever-after, reconsider if it would be termed as happily. Or if you already have the perfect one who makes you happy, contented, stable, and vice versa, then congratulations, looking for love is no more, since love has found you too. May your journey with love would be Wagas, and hopefully, as they say, “Happy lang, walang ending.”
Love involves rejection and pain, so I won’t love - that’s another misconception of love that I found in the book. Yes, it’s true that love involves rejection, and it’s actually scary to put your heart in the line with the thought that no one would take and reciprocate it. But fear of rejection is normal, so if you won’t give it a chance, then you…show more content… Let me share my favorite part in that story. That’s when one of the characters said, “Sometimes I think we walk with these spikes in our backs like hedgehogs. We never let them down, even if we get close to another person. Can you imagine that kind of pain for two hedgehogs to embrace? Can you imagine what would drive the two to embrace in the first place?” My answers to these questions are yes and yes, respectively. I could imagine the pain, I felt that too, that feeling every time I get closer to someone, and the more I hurt them, which in turn hurts me more. And what’s worse than even in your good intentions you tend to hurt the people you love, right? But despite it all, what drives hedgehogs to embrace? They do it to keep them warm from the cold. In some sense, for security, comfort, and love perhaps. Because of this metaphor, Hedgehog Dilemma is used as a psychological term to explain isolation and fear of social rejection. A person who suffers from the hedgehog's dilemma usually avoid becoming too close with someone, because of fear of another similar, possibly painful, experience, such as they had experienced in the past. So this person would end up not take a risk for love. It’s the same thing that happened in the story, when the other character only stood for an eternity, and moved no muscle, because if she did, it would be fatal. Sad it may seems, none of them took the risk of dealing with the pain in order to be…show more content… The author stated that love is a game, and the risks are great. Some take the risk to get the one lucky break, but some only play once, or not at all. The author revealed that he or she played once and lost quite a lot. Yes, he or she considered playing again to win everything back, but he or she decided not to take the risk. The author is contented to just observe the Masquerade, or life in which the people in it are nothing but a façade. It is evident in the story that the main character speaking in it is afraid to show her true self to other people, because of one incident that broke her heart when he or she did show it someone, and got rejected. I understand that the speaker is suffering from a broken heart, but if in just one rejection, he or she gave up, and then he or she caused his or her own