If you want to ensure you'll never be hurt by someone you love and admire, adopt a dog.
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When we idealize someone or put them up on a pedestal, we can be easily disappointed or hurt by them. We see them as above reproach, and almost super-human~ which sets us up for thinking they'll never let us down. Feeling disappointment is inevitable, if you're human. Nobody is beyond dishing it out or receiving it, but our belief that it's not supposed to happen in either case, is what can set us up for a huge fall.
If you want to ensure you'll never be hurt by someone you love and admire, adopt a dog.
If you want to ensure you'll never be hurt by…
If you want to ensure you'll never be hurt by someone you love and admire, adopt a dog.
When we idealize someone or put them up on a pedestal, we can be easily disappointed or hurt by them. We see them as above reproach, and almost super-human~ which sets us up for thinking they'll never let us down. Feeling disappointment is inevitable, if you're human. Nobody is beyond dishing it out or receiving it, but our belief that it's not supposed to happen in either case, is what can set us up for a huge fall.