How to just go with the flow and risk being hurt

How the f Is this possible? Please someone enlighten me.

Ye just do, don't expect to be hurt, that sends out negative energy, trust that you won't be and enjoy whats happening when its happening. If you do get hurt, well from pain comes strength.

Things come and go, only to bring you new things that will go eventually and so on, it's the natural process of life. People get hurt when they turn these experiences to possessions. Enjoy your experiences and live without trying to possess them. You'll be fine.

Just Do It! Stop trying to manipulate and control the situation. Be the best YOU you can be and hopefully, the "person" will sense your sincerity and give you sincerity back. I think people really underestimate the power of sincerity. You get what you put out. I know this is over simplifying it, but if you get hurt- so what? It will hurt. Hell, it may make you feel like your drowning. But you will heal. You will always heal. Perhaps this is my Gemini venus, not understanding how deeply painful, heartbreak can be...BUT your healthy, able-bodied, you have free choice. How many people in this world can say that? I mean there are much worse things than getting your heartbroken or getting rejected. The reward of love is much greater than the risks that come with it.

Um...with that said, I am the most cautious and slow person I know, when it comes to love **ducks head and looks around meekly**, but this is basically the pep talk I gave myself before entering into my current relationship (with a yummy cancer, coincidently. lol)

Thank you all for your responses.... IDK why I'm scared to feel I'm trying to figure that out on my own right now... I wasn't always this way.. I'm trying to get back to the old me. I've decided to stop EXPECTING and just start enjoying the moment... It's a work in process.. I think every aspect in life is always a work in process though... Thanks again :-)

Lib, this is what I'm going through also. Some days are better than others. Its scary sometimes. When I get scared, I shut down, or get more controlling.. and neither of those is productive or helpful to my situation. When I feel that way, I ask someone.. if I'm just being scared or if I have something real to worry about. And then I listen. I also usually have to walk away from the situation for a while.

...the weird thing is... this is the closest I've ever been to REAL intimacy. No matter how many men I've been with, spent years with.. its letting go of control and just trusting that things will be okay that is the most terrifying, and the most intimate.

Youre young, single and pretty..just have fun, have some nice drinks, kiss some handsome dudes, get on the dancefloor. Before you know you'll be 50 and asking yourself "why the fuck was I taking myself so seriously when I was younger?"