just that.

Can you love someone in a moment as intensely as with a lifetime?

Today's tutorial left my mind reeling of all the questions the tutor asked us.

Time. Love. Loss.

Time seems to be the only thing which contects us. You have changed. I have changed. But is there something that remains constant all these while? WE share this promise-the promise that you'll wait for me. THEY share this expectation of us being together once again. At the end of it all.

Will you really wait? Or have you already done so?

When you say you love me, do you really love me? or are you in love with the idea of love?

After two,three, no, fifty-one years, will you still be in love with me? or will you be in love with the person you first fell in love with?

can I love you and yet be in love with someone else too?

who sets the standards of love? who determined the way we should or ought to love each other? who qualified what's wrong or right in love?

I've lost my sense of perception. I don't know what is real, nor what is an illusion. I thought I have already forgotten about you-erased you from my mind. but no, the thunder before the rain reminds me, you linger still in my memories.

And yet, as we sail, you make another promise. This time, you promise me,

Forever.

- Fermina Daza, Love in the time of Cholera.

well, it seems that I have transformed the questions that I've been asked into pointers from the female lead herself.

I honestly believe in the novel, she wouldn't have asked these questions, and yet, perhaps she ought to have done so.

hmmm. I actually wanted to type something else, and I guess I ended up revising my work while blogging. and why did I type it from the POV of Fermina? cause it's way
easier typing you and me rather than, "if someone says to someone...and if that someone..."too much of a hassle.


and as for my answer to the very first question, I honestly do not know. but one thing I know, is that someone can love another person. and perhaps, that is all we need to know.

as taken from the song, "Don't know much" by Aaron Neville and Linda Rondstadt:

I don't much, but I know I love you,
And that may be all I need to know

I don't know much, but I know I love you,
And that may be all there is to know

The only truth I will ever know,
Is Me and You.