When commitment feels like imprisonment, it is your logic speaking, it is your fear. Commitment to someone or something you love is a liberation. Be willing to let people change. Better to believe that all that was yesterday. Today we create anew.
Love has nothing to do with pity.
Care is not pity. Let yourself care for others. Keep alert, for it can creep in under your guard. Imagine that you were given a ring and was told it was gold plated and the stone was nothing special. Then suppose that you were to discover that the ring was solid gold and of such antiquity that it was worth a fortune.