some story.

As the phrase "love you forever" was tumbling and going through my mind, I remembered reading a story somewhere and somewhen telling that there is an absolute cure for love. I had forgotten who wrote the story and what the title was, I can only recall that it was in a compilation of short stories; a small blue paperback crammed full of last century's musings about the future. In that story it tells that the cure for love is time, or specifically Immortality.

I guess the premise of that story would deromanticize the vampires of Anne Rice, if not, all of the romantic immortal vampires of fiction and yes, there goes Edward Cullen too. When time stops to affect you physically, it would always be a major paradigm shift, and I am thinking now that emotions or feelings would always find itself rooted in previous memories and the connection of a certain memory to another; and memory being temporal, where do you root your emotions when you have lost sense of time? when time doesn't affect you anymore? Eternal life, as I stop to think about it is certainly overrated.

Because for what purpose or reason are emotions when the persons that you devote them in would always pass, depart and die. Hate is far from the being the opposite of love, Indifference rather is the nearest as it does not even acknowledge that emotion, and perhaps even negates it. I guess through time Indifference would always win and B. Corgan would only sing it more simply, "the more you change, the less you feel".

And if the story was ever true, even in some context, the phrase that had been tumbling in my mind "love you forever" would be a contradiction of sorts, since forever would only intimate immortality and by the definition of forever the phrase would defeat its purpose. But as it goes it is only a story, a science fiction from the early 1900s and it, among many other contradictions in my life, wouldn't really change how I feel, when I think and say that "I love you forever". That story can only make that phrase truer for me.