Give Your Heart Away

Knowing how short this life is, knowing how much is surely to be taken away from our lives, how can we not want to give all we have away? It's always better to give too much than too little, especially giving of yourself. In the end, will it really bother us very much if someone took a little too much from us or we spent too much of "our time" helping others, even if we got little in return? My God, surely no matter how much we give there will probably still be more we could have done, more of our self we could have shared with our friends, more of our heart we could have worn on our sleeve- even risking it being broken at any moment. Better to have a broken heart and spirit because you gave too much, better to have given all you have away in love and be poor than to have a good, solid, untouched, like-new heart that never lived or risked or gave. Every crack, every blemish in our spirit shows that once, we cared more about something else and less for ourselves. Once, it was really worth the risk.