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Ephemeral or Eternal Love, Which One Are You Living?
The search for something time cannot erase
Look at the person beside you.
Yes, you who are reading this now.
If you have someone, observe them for a moment.
If you don’t, think about the last person you loved. What do you feel?
Can you imagine waking up next to them in 20, 30, 40 years? It’s an uncomfortable question, I know. I ask myself this constantly too.
We spend our entire lives searching for eternal love, but how many of us really know what that means? I see young couples swearing eternal love at altars, with radiant smiles and grandiose promises.
I see them three years later in family courts, discussing child custody and property division. What went wrong? Where is the eternity they promised?
The love you seek, the one from romantic movies and Nicholas Sparks’ books, is a dangerous illusion. True eternal love is far more complex, much deeper, and, paradoxically, much simpler than we imagine.
It’s made of small moments, daily choices, conflicts resolved in whispered midnight conversations.
You know that elderly couple you see at the café every morning?
