Giving Myself Away

I'm growing tired of pouring my heart and soul out to the people I meet in my great life-adventure. It breaks my heart when I suddenly realize that I'm not guarded enough when it comes to people. I'm too trusting in every pair of honest-looking eyes. If someone opens up to me, I find myself opening up back. I give honesty when I get it. I love to trade stories. It never quite occurs to me in enough time that people may not be as they seem. I always forget this important part in letting people in my life. I let myself ignore the small voice in my head that's telling me to be careful. It tells me that if I give up these bits and pieces of myself to people... I may never get them back. The warning flashes in my mind every time and I simply step around it as I proceed to give my thoughts away to another human being. Most times, in the end, these people take these pieces when they leave. It doesn't matter how many memories we've made, how much love we may have shared, the stories we bled out... They still walk away. I know that. I never doubted it by any means.