A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

no matter how far away you go, they love you when you come back

Bridge in Paris. You can hang locks on it with the name of you and your boyfriend  /girlfriend / best friend and then throw away the key in the river. But when you break up, you can’t remove the lock, it stays there forever, just like a scar.
esoteric-imprecations: i don’t care if you cut a hole through it, just get it out. but then again, don’t. if i didn’t feel so miserable all the time, i wouldn’t feel anything.