72 Relationship that Lasts

名称：72 Relationship that Lasts
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[00:00.43]Relationship that Lasts
[00:05.46]If somebody tells you,“ I’ll love you for ever,” will you believe it?
[00:12.04]I don’t think there’s any reason not to.
[00:15.31]We are ready to believe such commitment at the moment,
[00:19.04]whatever change may happen afterwards.
[00:21.76]As for the belief in an everlasting love, that’s another thing.
[00:27.56]Then you may be asked whether there is such a thing as an everlasting love.
[00:33.15]I’d answer I believe in it, but an everlasting love is not immutable.
[00:39.27]You may unswervingly love or be loved by a person.
[00:43.54]But love will change its composition with the passage of time.
[00:47.92]It will not remain the same.
[00:50.43]In the course of your growth and as a result of your increased experience,
[00:56.34]love will become something different to you.
[00:59.51]In the beginning you believed a fervent love for a person could last definitely.
[01:05.64]By and by, however, “fervent” gave way to “prosaic”.
[01:10.67]Precisely because of this change it became possible for love to last.
[01:15.92]Then what was meant by an everlasting love would eventually end up in a sort of interdependence.
[01:23.47]We used to insist on the difference between love and liking.
[01:28.29]The former seemed much more beautiful than the latter.
[01:32.12]One day, however, it turns out there’s really no need to make such difference.
[01:38.24]Liking is actually a sort of love.
[01:41.09]By the same token, the everlasting interdependence is actually an everlasting love.
[01:47.43]I wish I could believe there was somebody who would love me for ever.
[01:52.46]That’s, as we all know, too romantic to be true.
[01:57.20]Instead, it will more often than not be a case of lasting relationship.