Hurt; why is it so addicting?

I have found recently that the emotion that I see the most is HURT. There are a lot of hurting people out there. I see it everyday with my friends. Someone said this, someone did this. This happened with so-and-so, those two are fighting. She misses him so much it hurts, he could just say one little thing and hurt her. Why is it that even just the littlest things hurt us the most? Take relationships. If you’re in high school, I’m sure that you hear about at least 10 or more break ups a month. Plus relationships that become. But every time two people get together, or two people break up, someone is always hurt no matter what. Whether they broke up because they were both mad or not, someone is always going to get hurt, like it or not. Sometimes the person getting hurt isn’t even a person directly affected by what is going on. If you just get a little to involved with other people’s business, *poof* there’s your recipe to get yourself hurt. I find myself in this situation more often than I would like. The profession I would like to pursue is psychology. So, naturally, I like to listen to other peoples problems. But the thing that I always end up doing is getting too into the problem itself, getting myself way too involved in the situation, when it has nothing to do with me whatsoever. And when the outcome of the problem occurs, I get myself hurt, even though it has nothing to do with me. So the question I have to ask myself is why? Why do we, myself included, always keep doing the things that we know are going to hurt us the most? How does this make sense? We see it happen in situations before, so why do we always go back to it? Why do we like the pain so much? It’s not like cutting where the physical pain makes you not think about the emotional pain, you’re causing the emotional pain. So why do we do this? Why do we like to make ourselves hurt? I don’t think that I will ever understand this as long as I live. Because right now I am still involved in too many things that have nothing to do with me. I think that I can make them better, but I can’t, they just hurt me. If we all just learned to stay out of each others business, then maybe we wouldn’t be hurting so much. If we only have to worry about us, and us only, doesn’t that make our lives so much easier? But, naturally, humans are curious creatures, so that will never happen. Therefore, there will always be hurting people. And breakups, and fighting, and affairs, and everything. The world won’t change.

We are a hurting people.
That is not going to change, it is our fault.
It’s time to face the facts.