Chapter 58 forever

"If you say that you can love someone forever, it is like saying that a candle can burn to the end of your life." This is what Shakespeare said. Is it possible for us to love someone "forever"?It is possible; the key is to first define the length of the "validity period" of the word "forever". The original meaning of "eternal" is the same life as the heaven and the earth, the same light as the sun and the moon, including the period before the birth of the universe and after its destruction, which is longer than everyone's life.According to this "original meaning", we can't use this word at all, and we shouldn't use it; as long as we use this word, it is fraud; A little sorry.

Little boys say to little girls: "I will always love you." When they say it, they usually mean it sincerely; but "forever", at this age, is just an "auxiliary word", which is used to strengthen and modify the word "love". Monotonous words. Generally speaking, the younger the couple, the stronger the passion; if Romeo is forty-nine and Juliet is thirty-eight, the same story will not be convincing or popular.The "forever" Romeo said, according to the intensity of passion, is roughly equivalent to three months of real life; after three months, the passion has completely subsided, and "forever" will disappear; if it is delayed, there is no need to die for love.

When people mature, we still occasionally say "forever"; for example, at a wedding, or after a satisfying sexual act; this "forever" is longer, about seven or eight years. Everyone understands that "forever" is equal to hundreds of millions of light years, so they talk nonsense, and they will never write this word into the contract, and no one will really pursue it: "You said it was forever, why is it not forever?" In the twilight years, everyone tacitly avoids talking about this "forever". When I was a child, I visited graves in Macau during the Ching Ming Festival, and I remembered that there was a "Chinese permanent cemetery"; the cemetery said "forever", which means "forever", which is more meaningful than the "forever" of young people.