Are you a hedgehog?
Yes, I'm actually asking you this, and no, I'm not high.
There's a philosophical concept called the hedgehog dilemma, is a metaphor for human intimacy. It describes a situation where a group of hedgehogs needs to cuddle together closely for warmth in the winter, but when they do, their spikes prick and hurt one another.
Although we need human intimacy, relationships are accompanied by pain. Though the hedgehogs (or people, whoever is reading this) all have a desire to have a close and reciprocal relationship, the pain of those relationships is... inevitable. What's the solution? Is there one? Or will you always hurt the ones you're closest to? According to psychologists, the ideal is to keep a little distance in relationships. But if you're old enough, you know that finding that sweet spot is the hardest part.
Personally, I find it extremely interesting when a situation like that of the hedgehogs describes so well a human behavior. We know that the closer we are to someone, the easier it is that we get hurt. Although it seems that we must close and form a shell that no one can pass ... I do not know the next part of that sentence, I just know that it is impossible to know if a person will hurt us or not. But I think butters describes this better than me: