The narrator asks the reader to imagine that he has been "wounded by a girl" . The narrator tells the reader that he grew up watching "such a fool" , and he wonders why he always cares so much about "things like this" when "it traumatized you . . it so." The narrator then goes on to explain that love is a "trap set by genes . to replicate themselves" and that people who put love before their own lives are "unreasonable and pitiful"