Everyone knows that "normal" is completely relative but just yesterday I decided that "forever" is, too. Neither have a concrete meaning. What brought this to mind was hearing the song 'Forever' by Ben Harper and then thinking about a quote I recently read: "I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever." Before having thoroughly thought about the word "forever," the song and quote were very sweet and cute in my mind. They still are, but only in a mythical sense.
***Dictionary definition: for everlasting time, eternally.
First, you'd have to believe that forever is real. Forever of what? The Earth, heaven, your soul, love? Who knows. And say you believe that your soul lasts forever in heaven, do you reaaaallly want to live forever***? That's a long time. I know I'd get bored.
Second, you may think of forever as being your time on Earth. Well, a love affair that lasts forever would have to have started at birth (I'll skip conception). So maybe the love affair is a plutonic family-love you have for your mom and/or dad. That's cool.
I don't have a paragraph that wraps this all together, sorry.
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