Feel, or no feel?

Currently popular is a mindless, idiotic, based-on-greed TV game show called:



With all the pain happening with all my loved ones, and the pain I feel along with them, I am thinking the options on life are: Feel, or no feel?

If we open ourselves up to love, we open ourselves up to loss. If we open up to depth in our relationships, we open ourselves up to potentially deeper wounds as well.

Do we keep going for the prize: joy, shared experience, laughter, love? Knowing we may lose everything?

Or do we shut down, stop trying, avoid the pain by avoiding the feeling?