what are you?

She asked me, “Why do you close yourself off from people?”

“It’s easier this way,” I replied. “I have better focus on the things that are important to me right now. I’m not going to go out of my way to look for things that I don’t need.”

"Easier in what way? I understand that you won’t be able to get hurt by others, but you know you’ll probably never find someone that’ll be able to make you happy, too,” she remarked.

“And who is to say that I need someone else to make me happy?” I asked. “You see, that’s the kind of thinking I hate — when people believe the only way to be happy is through another person.”

- dreamongood@tumblr, Brandon Oda