Now I've had time to process it... I just think, "Screw that belief. He loves you, you love him. Sometimes that is enough to chance it. To be worth it. You don't know what the future brings... you will probably be a good and bad influence on each other at times, and you can learn and grow together through it if you choose to. Perhaps you can turn the bad into good lessons to grow old and wise with. Then you can tell those stories, and pass your knowledge on if you want to. You may even come to know yourself better. There are things you learn about yourself when you fall in love, when you are left vulnerable around another human that feels the same way. When you learn how to live with each other and go through life together. Things you wouldn't learn without it."At least, I hope that is what I'll tell myself from now on.