As you grow older, you realize the toll that caring takes on you. All the emotion and energy it takes out of you. When something is wrong with someone you care about--when they are in trouble, all you want to do is fix it. But you can't always do that and it hurts. Attachment always complicates things. It never makes things easier--by definition, it can't. But its a necessary evil. To live a life without caring, without emotional pain even--is no life at all. It causes blood flow, heart palpitations, and it makes you feel alive. And frankly, some people are REALLY worth it. You just have to eliminate the one's that aren't to save yourself from unnecessary emotional pain.