What is love? When it really comes, it will be like a cholera , more like an epidemic, which is irresistible and hopeless.
There are thousands of kinds of love in the world, including childhood sweethearts, love between you and me, love that you can’t get, love that you don’t love, and wasted waiting, missing out, and helplessness...
Just like this, the book known as the "Encyclopedia of Human Love" The masterpiece, Love in the Time of Cholera, describes all kinds of love.
The protagonist has been exiled and sunk for half a century, and finally waits for and understands love in his old age, which also awakens the world's deep understanding of love.
Exiled love is just pain to stop the pain
On a bright day with the sun shining brightly, a boy who was sending a telegram met a girl who was as elegant and noble as a white swan.
looked at each other for a moment, and the seeds of a century-old love were quietly planted in the world.
Since ancient times, "which boy is not in love, and which girl is not pregnant with youth". Like many innocent and romantic first loves, they fell in love quickly when they were young.
The boy wandered in the park for a long time, just to see the girl's beautiful figure, and began to write love letters every day, one every day.
The girl was also moved by this sincerity and responded bluntly: "If you promise not to let me endure hardship, I will marry you."
However, the more true and pure the love, the longer and deeper the pain will be.
First love in the secular world often dies easily. This pure and beautiful love also ended hastily under the storm of reality.
The girl’s father obstructed her and forced her to travel far away.
When they met again, the girl had decided to marry a prominent local doctor.
A boy immersed in love, his strong emotions were cut off, like a kite with broken strings, suddenly falling to the messy earth.
Just like a frustrated person uses alcohol to drown his sorrows, and a person in severe pain uses drugs to anesthetize him, the boy fell into the intoxication and indulgence of decades of love.
On the one hand, the more I miss you, on the other hand, I get to know new lovers quickly and have sex frequently.
He believes that in this way, he can get rid of his inner frustration and powerlessness and heal his emotional trauma and loneliness.
During the war, a widow took refuge in his home out of fear.
met by chance, and he got closer out of sympathy, regaining a man's unique sense of justice and accomplishment.
In the noisy crowd, he saw a girl and invited her to eat ice cream and hung out with her. It seemed that he had returned to the days of romantic innocence, but soon he discovered that the girl turned out to be a madman.
On the carriage, he met the charming pigeon raising girl and began a road romance.
During the tryst, he wrote the mark "This belongs to me" on the other person's belly, feeling a kind of show off and satisfaction.
At a poetry festival, the female poet sitting next to her was frustrated because she failed to win the prize, which attracted his attention.
Maybe they are both fallen people in the world. After some pleasantries, the two fell in love with each other and became lovers.
Until his later years, a 14-year-old girl once again ignited the blazing flame of love in his heart.
The girl's innocence and brightness allowed him to see Fermina in her girlhood, which healed his strong memories and longing...
However, everyone becomes drunk even if the wine is not intoxicating, and they use wine to drown their sorrows.
Patients who take medication to relieve pain will become even more debilitated after the severe pain disappears.
The short-term paralysis will only usher in a new round of severe pain.
The boy tirelessly exiled and sank into a vicious cycle. After
came into contact with each woman and tasted the pleasure of passion and indulgence, she found that what she gained was not only greater emptiness, but also endless heartbreak and despair.
For half a century, he wandered between hurting and being hurt, seducing and being seduced. With as many as 622 women, he constantly verified and searched for the love that had been rejected and lost. .
It is said that "love is full of love", but the pain of losing love is enough to split the body and mind, making people become emotional drunkards, sinking deeper and deeper into the lost road.
This kind of harm is unforgettable, but it cannot be replaced or cured. Scars that are treated with pain will never truly heal.
Perhaps, what we can do is to understand the two sides of love.
One side of it is happiness, and the other side is pain.
Only by facing and breaking through this pain can we truly get rid of pain and obtain salvation.
There is only one kind of true love in life
Half your life is wasted, half your life is playing games.
In the confusion of various passions, the boy Florentino Ariza became a man, passing from boyhood to old age.
But his heart has always been extremely clear and firm: He wants to maintain health and appearance, and maintain strong vitality for the love in his heart, just so that one day he can renew his relationship.
He never married, and all the women he met later were different shadows of his sweetheart.
He chose not to leave this city, just because there was always a possibility and opportunity for him to reunite with her.
Even if he stopped and stared at it from a distance, he felt great satisfaction in his heart.
He is unfortunate, but also very lucky. God gave him a chance.
The husband of his sweetheart passed away unfortunately. This is bad news for everyone, but for him, it is the great news in life.
Regardless of secular prejudice and old age, he finally stood bravely in front of his first love, loudly telling the love words that had been buried for many years, and wanted to hold hands and love him most in his lifetime.
But the girl in my heart, Fermina, has become an old woman with an aging face and a decadent body.
After the intense anger and disgust, there was a voice in her heart, asking loudly: "Why did I let this phantom occupy my heart for so long?"
She clearly remembered that as a woman, she In every inadvertent fragment of time, I always look up at the garden in my memory.
She seemed to see an affectionate young man holding the love letter in his hand tightly, his face sweating due to nervousness, and his lips becoming stiff due to anxiety.
seemed to hear the music played only for myself on countless wonderful nights.
She knew that she missed him all the time. She once thought that this figure would drift away and become an increasingly vague dream.
A person should live once in his life for himself, for youth and for love.
So, the two old men, one 76 years old and the other 72 years old, joined hands again and embarked on the ship that was just for them to sail.
Regardless of the doubts and comments from the outside world, they resolutely hung the flag symbolizing cholera on the bow of the ship, and enjoyed this long-overdue meeting gently and attentively.
After all, in a world with love, even cholera will give way.
Even though I am getting older and times have changed, the memories I once had have never faded. True love will stay strong in your heart for a lifetime.
When we are young, we are always young and energetic, with strong self-esteem. When relationships are frustrated and marriages are in crisis, we always think that the worst is divorce or the worst, and we believe that there will be a better one.
However, after experiencing many marriages and meeting more people, I found that the other person was still not perfect and suitable.
The candidate I was looking forward to never appeared again.
In fact, you love many people, maybe you are only looking for the same one.
Perfect love is ultimately the fusion of body and soul, and must ultimately conform to the innermost aesthetics and values.
It turns out that in this world, it is too difficult to find the person who is suitable for you and makes your heart beat.
After reading thousands of stories and going round and round, it is still the same person and love.
What we have been searching for all our lives is precisely "far away in the horizon and right before our eyes".
Marriage and love are two mirrors
If the last hand-holding between the two old people was a lifetime of luck and happiness, it was also a rare transcendence of the secular world and a brave adventure in the years.
Is it love that is perfect and pure happiness?
The young Fermina was deeply attracted by her husband's talent and wealth. Her husband was also free and gentle, and took her to enjoy a 16-month European honeymoon trip.
She occasionally felt unwell, so he took care of her in plain clothes and described to her all kinds of romance in her future life.
But when entering real marriage life, one side is tortured by the mother-in-law and sister-in-law, and the other side is the indifferent husband.
The love that once shone with golden light seemed to slowly disappear in the trivial daily life, replaced by endless nitpicking and complaints.
They argued endlessly, mostly over trivial matters.
The two of them blushed for a piece of soap in the bathroom.
The wife loves to keep pets, which makes her husband intolerable.
The husband often urinates on the toilet seat, which makes his wife extremely disgusted.
Such a marriage makes people feel dull and numb. In the end, love seems to have only turned into family affection and resentment.
At this moment, Fermina's heart was like a mirror, reflecting the warmth of love in her dreams.
She couldn't help but secretly recall that the affectionate Ariza once regarded herself as the "goddess with the flower crown".
At the same time, Florentino Ariza thought he had met a series of loves. After repeated passions, his turbulent heart yearned for a stable marriage, a long-term lover, and "two people, three meals, The peace of the four seasons.
For this dream, he is willing to guard it in secret and wait for the years.
In order to match the man of his dreams as soon as possible, he worked hard and won back his good status and identity.
Florentino Ariza, who is infatuated, and Fermina, who is in marriage, each endures gains and losses, longs for passion and triviality, and fantasizes about the unreachable holiness and perfection.
When they finally embraced each other, they also spent their respective lives telling the truth about marriage and love:
Both marriage and love are two mirrors of life, reflecting a kind of "me in you" and "you in me", which cannot be combined. Got reality.
Through these two mirrors, everyone yearns for love in marriage, and longs for marriage in love.
Just like what is said in "Red Roses and White Roses", each became the white moonlight in front of the window and the cinnabar mole on the heart.
Human nature is like this. What you can’t get is always the best, and you will always have longing and unwillingness. But in reality, love is beautiful but fragile, and marriage is boring and trivial, but simple and reliable. Who is lucky enough to have the best of both worlds?
Probably, we can only weigh between the two, just like two mirrors, seeing different gains and losses, feeling different moods, so as to have a relatively harmonious life.
There are thousands of kinds of love in the world. If you really invest in it, you will feel the heart-pounding sweetness, but you will also experience the pain that goes deep into your bones.
Love, from another perspective, is a kind of willing injury.
People in it will live and die together without regrets or regrets for a promise and worth.
And when we pay great affection, we must also see the truth behind it, that is:
When you lose love, do not use pain to stop the pain. Because no matter how many times you encounter love, there is only one true love.
And love and marriage are like two mirrors, reflecting our true hearts.
Life is too short to afford waste and waiting. After experiencing the baptism of years and the tempering of life, we will eventually understand: the best time is in front of us, and the best lover is by our side.
Click [Watching] , I hope you and I can understand love, recognize the right person with discerning eyes, use long-term appreciation and patience to protect trivial marriages, and pursue and verify: What you love is What you get, what you get is what you love.
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