Inevitable

We can close our eyes to the things we don't want to see.

We can hold our breath to the scent we don't want to smell.

However, we can't shut our ears to the things we don't want to hear.

Covering our ears with hand, or even expensive noise canceling in-ear headphone, would still let sound from the outside slipping in.

Why is that? Could there be a philosophy behind it?

Or is it just the way God created us?

Evolutionary reasons?

And there is one more thing.

We can't close our heart to the love that comes suddenly.

Or to put it more generally,

we can't close our hearts to the things we don't want to feel.

Feeling is just as inevitable as hearing,

but we can ignore it if we try hard enough, I guess.

(10/8)