Protected
Written yesterday, in another context, to another person: "I saw a movie with my parents earlier today called Enough Said . It was a pretty good film. A few lines in it stayed with me though. It was one of those moments that something holds you, because you're open to it, and perhaps you need to hear it. The female protagonist in the movie is symptomatic of our generation. She's single, divorced, a wonderful person, searching for a partner, smarting still about her past, trying to live her life fully... but in her effort to protect herself, and a few bad miscalculations, she fatally undermines a very promising relationship. (I'm not a movie buff by any measure, but I wanted to give you a bit of context.) After the she's messed up their relationship, her now-former love asks her "why?" [she acted out the way she did] "I wanted to protect myself", she replies "and what about protecting us?" he asks back and therein lies the heart of the