Be reckless?

Many quotes are embedded, didn't apostrophize for the sake of congruity.

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with people who are reckless with yours - I read this some time back. Though I was able to appreciate it emotionally, I wasn't able to agree to it rationally. Blame it on your own growth, sometimes you really can't avoid being reckless with others. When you extrapolate it, people being reckless with you becomes an unavoidable behaviour too.

All of us are engrossed in our own quests to become the person we desire to be. Probably if we don't know where we're going, any road can get us there. But when we want to go somewhere and not just anywhere, we have to keep opening and closing doors, sometimes our own, sometimes of others. The harder we try, the blinder we get. In the complex and dynamic maze we're in, sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open. While we keep staring, we fall prey to parasitic emotions and narcissistic compulsions that end up retarding our own growth. And the lesser the growth, the more the recklessness.

I thought I got the answer to my disagreement when I read - It is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. I tried customizing the quote in the first line - Don't help someone become the person he desires not to be, don't put up with someone who helps you become the person you don't desire to be. This came close, however was still not entirely agreeable. I decided to stop the self-torture and went to sleep.