I know, and your friend is like that. But you can't say your better off not trusting someone and trusting someone. I used to be exactly like you. Somone had ripped my heart out, broke it, and then vomited on it (lol extreme but true). I was very hurt and began to doubt everyone. I thought much like you do now about love, trust, sex, and just life in general. But things change, you can't think one thing forever. I was a cutter, a loner, and a hopless drone. But, like I said, things change and turned out someone trusted me, loved me, and wanted me to live. It may not seem like it but people are meaner than they actually are. And you can't go by the people you live around. Yes, its in other parts of the world, but people there are very very very very very very very VERY special(DUH! special). Like you said love is a part of a whole and people there are part of a whole. So just consider it.