[1:52 p.m.] - [2008-06-04]
Let's say that you're presented with the option to be with someone that you really care for - maybe you've even wanted them for years - for an indeterminable amount of time, but you know it won't last. Not that you don't get along or lack a certain spark, but perhaps there is a conflict of interests or there is just too much history between you. Would you chance the potential pain or walk away with clean hands?
For the sake of the argument, forget about whatever mess may or may not be going on. Just assume that everything in your life is stable and (beyond the petty irritants of daily life) stress-free. This would-be lover (the one that got away, an old flame, a friend that turned into something more) comes to you, and you know - you know - that it's a bad idea. No matter how perfectly you get along now, you're not right for each other but you're still clinging to that fool's hope that you've tried so hard to deny... What would you do?
Would you risk the hurt in favor of silencing that taunting question of 'what if'? Or would you take the safe route and walk away while you both had the chance to escape unscathed?
And if you were to take that risk, would you warn them?
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