优秀英语短篇散文：Relationship that Lasts
if somebody tells you, “ i'll love you for ever,” will you believe it?i don't think there's any reason not to. we are ready to believe such
commitment at the moment, whatever change may happen afterwards. as for the
belief in an everlasting love, that's another thing.
then you may be asked whether there is such a thing as an everlasting love.
i'd answer i believe in it. but an everlasting love is not immutable.
you may unswervingly love or be loved by a person. but love will change its
composition with the passage of time. it will not remain the same. in the course
of your growth and as a result of your increased experience, love will become
something different to you.
in the beginning you believed a fervent love for a person could last
indefinitely. by and by, however,“ fervent” gave way to “ prosaic” . precisely
because of this change it became possible for love to last. then what was meant
by an everlasting love would eventually end up in a sort of interdependence.
we used to insist on the difference between love and liking. the former
seemed much more beautiful than the latter. one day, however, it turns out
there's really no need to make such difference. liking is actually a sort of
love.by the same token, the everlasting interdependence is actually an
everlasting love.
i wish i could believe there was somebody who would love me for ever.
that's, as we all know, too romantic to be true. instead, it will more often
than not be a case of lasting relationship.
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