'Everlasting love' is a foolish notion in a time bound, temporary existence !
It's an addictive belief and, as Chopra put it
" Any addiction is just a repeated attempt to achieve something good that you want, by a bad method that can never deliver the goods you hope for "
I don't have an addiction to love nor do I have an addiction to "foolish notions".
To put hope in ones own future is by no means a foolish notion....to put hope in finding someone decent that u may want to spend the rest of ur life with is not a foolish notion. When u get married u take an oath of till death do us part ...so is the sanctity of marriage now also a foolish notion to you??
Do u not enter anything good with some degree of hope that it could last...or do u enter everything with a negative mindset that it will last for a short period of time because some spiritual leader has told me to think this way instead of having the awareness of my own mind to decide for myself what is worth hoping for or not???
In our younger years we value "love". as we get older we value "tolerance", for each other,especially trying to have a new relationship/s in our later years,
chris27292729: In our younger years we value "love". as we get older we value "tolerance", for each other,especially trying to have a new relationship/s in our later years,
Well said that man ... having said that we also learn as we age that it's good if we can " learn to surrender the things of youth " ( as per the line in Desiderata )
That allows us to enjoy 'being in the moment as we are' rather than holding on to notions we held in the past ... ?
Track16: I used to love myself twice a day, now I'm lucky if its twice a week.
You should see a doctor if the refraction period is more than 12 hours !
But I dunno, maybe you just don't fancy y'self the way you once did ?
Reminds me of a story about two bums in a shop doorwayd getting ready to settle down for the night.
First bum is whining about the loss of faculty, he's a bit deaf, a bit less sharp in eyesight and a lot less strong than he used to be.
" Oh " says the second bum " I dunno about that, OK maybe my eyes and ears arent quite as sharp but I sure am getting stronger. When I was a young man and had wood it took me two hands to bend it ... now I can do that with juss the one hand ! "
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We all have asked countless times:-
Will I be able to ever love again ?
Maybe that past love was just imagination ?