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（不變的）. 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（平凡的）" . 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. 如果有人告訴你,“我會(huì)永遠(yuǎn)愛你,你會(huì)相信嗎? 我不認(rèn)為有任何理由不去。我們?cè)敢庀嘈胚@樣的承諾,無論改變之后發(fā)生的。至于相信永遠(yuǎn)的愛,那是另一回事。 然后你可能會(huì)問是否有這樣的事情作為一個(gè)永恒的愛。我回答我相信它。但永遠(yuǎn)的愛不是不變的(不變的)。 你也許永遠(yuǎn)愛一個(gè)人,或被一個(gè)人愛著。但是愛情會(huì)隨著時(shí)間的流逝改變成分。它不會(huì)保持不變。在你成長的過程中,因此你的增加經(jīng)驗(yàn),愛會(huì)變成不同的東西給你。 一開始你相信摯愛一個(gè)人可能會(huì)持續(xù)下去。然而,漸漸地,“狂熱”讓位于“平淡(平凡的)”。正是因?yàn)檫@樣的改變很可能持續(xù)的愛。那么意思是一個(gè)永恒的愛最終會(huì)在一種相互依賴。 我們?cè)��?jīng)堅(jiān)持愛和喜歡的區(qū)別。前者比后者看起來更漂亮。然而有一天,原來真的沒有必要做出這樣的區(qū)別。喜歡是一種愛。同樣地,持久的相互依賴其實(shí)就是永恒的愛情。 我希望我能相信有人會(huì)永遠(yuǎn)愛我。我們都知道,浪漫得令人難以置信。相反,它往往會(huì)持久的關(guān)系。