Mel's

Each person, we let ourselves care about is just one more loss somewhere down the line

Yeah.
But until we lose the person,
we'd never really actually know whether the person's truly a loss..
and even if it so happens that that person has became a loss
and would never come back,
the caring never really ends.

It's true that we'll get hurt.
But sometimes, humans'd rather hurt
than feel nothing at all.
..because it's all mutual.
Loving, caring.. love. Love makes us feel both happiness and sorrow. and yet we like it.
We're all mental.
So we should love,
until we stop loving.
Care,
until we stop caring.
..and then move on,
down the line,
and find someone worth our care again.
and then it's just another bet.
and maybe the one thing we'd want to measure from that bet is ...
how much we have to lose by the time we reach the end of another line.

Or maybe we could measure the length of the line.

Or sometimes,
just stay together.

Hmm..
if you get what I mean anyway.