Notes:
excruciating: 〈苦痛など〉責め苦にかけられるような;
break up: (夫婦などの)仲たがい;
crush: 恋人;
rejection: 拒絶;
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Last night, I listened to a song called “Nothing hurts like love” and heard my friend say that “love is one of the most excruciating pains”. But does love really hurt? When one of my friends broke up with his girlfriend, he said “Love can hurt so bad”. But what really hurts is breaking up, not actually love. When my crush turned me down, I thought “Well, maybe love can actually cause a little pain”. Now though I think that “rejection hurts, but love does not”. And when you have to leave a person you really love, you may think “Why does love have to hurt people?”. But again, that is not love hurting, that is the parting that hurts. Happy Valentine’s day, everybody!
(written by student Nguyen Thanh Hung , edited by Prof. Simon Smith)
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