The Pain that never goes away

Love comes with pain and it sucks but its inevitable. They say that mature people face it and accepts it gracefully; adapts to that reality, understands that it is part of their reality. I imagine a big piece of wood permanently stuck in the center of my heart. It lives there. When I laugh it hurts; it also hurts when I cry; but it hurts everyday because I love. I love to love.

Question: Why do we still love even though we know we will be hurt in the process? Why do i still love and never learn my lesson? Why do I fall for the same kind of guy everytime? The timid, the quiet type, the ones who are quite the opposite of me? and end up getting hurt, every time.

There's so much to learn.