Hedging emotions

Just a thought, and some might say, a rather weird one.

Just as we 'hedge' our investments and money to mitigate or reduce market risk, how about 'hedging' your emotions too?

Instead of concentrating and focusing all your attention and emotional attachment towards 1 person or object, why not diversify it. Have atleast 2-3 people who you are really, or atleast equally close to. Indulge in 2-3 hobbies or interests. Feel strongly about atleast 2 or 3 different issues. That way, we can ruduce the risk of getting hurt when any one of these is unavailable, and hurts our feelings or emotions.

Say your best friend is being aloof, or your child moves away, or your partner is busy with friends, you always have the other to look to. Say you feel strongly about quota reservations, and some day (god forbid), they actually come into effect, you atleast have some other convictions to fall back on, rather than being driven to suicidal tendencies after losing faith in the countries justice system. Say, you can't find to go to the gym due to work, have 2 other hobbies, maybe like music or blogging which you can do otherwise too.

It's just a thought, because I havn't really tried this. All I know is that when one of the above fails, it hurts. Really makes you miserable right inside. So just thought of this as a back-up, to our usual support systems. Sounds rather cynical though. Ummm... gotta think about this.