i've had the strength of your beliefs

Your father, he talked about uh, when you were four and your, your brother was nine and he hid behind this door and he jumped out at you...  Boo! He hollers, Boo! And you, you had this doll, had this string in the back for talking... Chatty Cathy.  Wham! You took that doll and you wound up and you hit your brother so hard you knocked him flat as a pancake. I said to your mother, "No one, no one will ever jump out at that girl again." And your mother said, "just like you Max. She's just like you”.

You love someone, you open yourself up to suffering, that's the sad truth. Maybe they'll break your heart, maybe you'll break their heart and never be able to look at yourself in the same way. Those are the risks. You see two people and you think they belong together, but nothing happens. The thought of losing so much control over personal happiness is unbearable. That's the burden. Like wings, they have weight, we feel that weight on our backs, but they are a burden that lifts us. Burdens that allow us to fly.