"Love in the Time of Cholera" is the author Garcia M. After Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" won the Nobel Prize in Literature, it was another classic literary work.
This love history spanning more than half a century shows the different views of love that a person believes in at different ages, as well as the different definitions and understandings of love by different people.
The love you have had, the person you have loved, can find a shadow in this paragraph about the details of love.
The author does not tell us what love is.
But it tells us what love can look like.
01
Love can be a lifelong mistake at first sight
Li Jian's "Legend", there is a lyric that sings like this: "Just because I looked at you more in the crowd, I never forgot your face." Dreaming of seeing each other again one day by chance, I began to miss it alone. ”
The hero Alyssa's love for Fermina is like this.
One day, the telegrapher Alyssa delivered a letter at Fermina's house, passed by the window, and inadvertently glanced at Fermina, and since then she has been unable to help herself, thinking about each other for more than half a century.
Alyssa fell in love with Fermina at first sight. In order to see her again, he went around inquiring about her life and "tracking" her itinerary, just to pretend to have an inadvertent encounter.
Every morning at 7 o'clock, on Fermina's way to school, Alyssa always sat on a bench on the side of the road, pretending to read under a tree.
Whenever Fermina walked by, Alyssa would cover the book on her face in a panic and slowly move the book down, revealing half of her eyes to peep.
It wasn't until her back disappeared completely that he remembered that Fermina didn't know him. But he was used to thinking about her every day.
Alyssa began to write her thoughts in love poems, writing one page at a time, and unconsciously wrote more than 70 pages.
It took countless times to cheer herself up before handing the copied love letter to Fermina.
The love letter impresses Fermina, and the two fall in love.
They write letters to each other every day and tell them about lovesickness. Everything is the most beautiful thing about love.
See, a happy life is about to begin.
However, he was thwarted by Fermina's father, who did not agree to his daughter's presence with the poor telegrapher and took him on a trip.
Alyssa has been obsessively waiting, and some people have introduced female friends, and they all refuse.
Three years later, finally waited for the news of Fermina's return. Soon, he also received news that Fermina was getting married.
The bridegroom was not him, but Dr. Urbino, who had been introduced by her father and had money in the town.
Alyssa was devastated, but still couldn't put it down. Thus began his unilateral liking for 51 years, 9 months and 4 days.
In NetEase Cloud's "Reader", there is a high praise comment: When you are young, it is best not to meet people who are too amazing, and then half of your life is regret.
At an incompetent age, Alyssa met the person she most wanted to protect. It's a pity after all.
Some statisticians have done a probability calculation of two people meeting, and in China, with a population of 1.4 billion, the probability of meeting is 0.00487.
To meet, in addition to luck, I can't think of any other word to describe. It is even more an honor to have loved each other.
What's the surprise if the last two people love and can't?
After all, some people have spent all their luck just by meeting them.
02
Love can be spiritual chastity, physical infidelity.
Zhang Ailing wrote in "Red Roses and White Roses": "Maybe every man has had two such women, at least two. Married to a red rose, over time, the red changed a touch of mosquito blood on the wall, the white is still the bright moonlight in front of the window; married to the white rose, the white is a grain of rice stuck to the clothes, and the red is a cinnabar mole on the heart. ”
Alyssa's only white moonlight and cinnabar mole is Fermina.
But he had 622 mosquito blood and rice particles.
After Fermina married Dr. Urbino, Alyssa wanted to disturb the absence of identity, wanted to give up and forget.
Alyssa began to separate her soul from her body.
While he had a crazy crush on Fermina, he never married her for the rest of his life.
On the other hand, he is a "groom" every day, looking for all kinds of women, venting his desires, and passing the difficult days.
In his twenty-five books, it is true that he had 622 lovers and slept with 623 women, which is still a conservative number.
The days pass day by day, and it is difficult to sleep night and night.
Alyssa, 76, finally waited for the news of Fermina's husband's death.
Alyssa dressed up for her husband's funeral.
In the dead of night, the people who participated in the mourning were gone. Alyssa appeared in front of her husband's grave and confessed affectionately to Fermina: "I have been waiting for this opportunity for more than half a century. ”
Fermina angrily told him to roll.
Under Alyssa's firm and continuous admiration, the two take a steamship together and begin a twilight love.
Some people envied Fermina, and there was someone who had been silently in love with her, waiting for her.
Because in Alyssa's feelings, there are only two kinds of women in the world.
One is: Fermina
One is: other women
It wasn't her, it seemed like no one cared.
But either way, for which woman, it's not fair.
"The love of the soul is above the waist, and the love of the flesh is below the waist." These are Alyssa's exact words.
But none of this is true love.
The simultaneous progress of the soul and the body is the essence of love.
03
Love can be deep love when you love, and leave without love
Zhang Ailing said: "Love is not complicated, it comes and goes in three words, not that I love you, I hate you, or forget it, how are you?" I am sorry. “
The luckiest person in the whole book is the heroine Fermina, who has been loved all her life and has been loved all her life.
When you love, you love deeply; when you don't love, you turn away.
When Fermina received more than 70 pages of love letters from Alyssa at an age when she did not understand love, she thought it was love and fell in love.
Her father tried to thwart the immature relationship and took Fermina on a trip to see more of the outside world.
But her father's obstruction made Fermina's originally faint thoughts about Alyssa suddenly become intense. The two men's private correspondence was also more frequent than ever.
When Fermina and his father's trip had ended and were walking down the side streets of the town, familiar voices were heard in the noisy crowd.
She was excited and turned to see Alyssa's pale face. It was very different from what she imagined.
She instantly fell into the abyss of disappointment, and it was difficult to understand why she would fall in love with such a person.
She said: "When I met you today, I found that there was nothing more than an illusion between us. With a wave of his hand, Alyssa was erased from his own life.
Subsequently, he married Dr. Urbino, who had no worries about food and clothing and had prestige in the town. Live a stable little life on the ground.
In old age, Dr. Urbino died. Alyssa appeared next to Fermina and confessed again.
During the throes of bereavement, Fermina again rejected Alyssa.
Alyssa was still patiently waiting for Fermina, caring for her, guarding her, and accompanying her.
Eventually Fermina was moved, and the two men continued their frontier.
Young, youthful, passionate love.
After the passion fades, I find that this person is not suitable for me, so I have to bravely turn around and walk away.
That's how you can find the right person.
Fermina is such a courageous person.
No matter how old you are, you have the right to choose love.
No matter how old you are, brave love!
04
What else can love look like?
Love can be a constant demand without mercy, or it can be a shameless wagging tail and begging for mercy. Alyssa loves his 622 lovers and wants to be satisfied and unwilling to give. To Fermina, however, she pleaded bitterly.
Love can be just a secret of two people, not necessarily known. Dr. Urbino discovers his friend's secret girlfriend in his friend's children's photographer suicide suicide note.
Love can be a long-term love after a long stream of water. At the beginning of their marriage, Fermina and Dr. Urbino did not love each other. Finally, in the day and night together, a strong love developed.
Love can be a lifelong regret under cowardice and ignorance. Fermina's aunt, Escolastica, when she was young, rejected a lover's marriage proposal, regretting that she would never marry for the rest of her life.
Love can not be the most important part of life. Fermina married Dr. Urbino in order to seek a stable, down-to-earth, and secure life. For bread, not for love.
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In the vast world, love looks like a thousand forms.
But happy love must be:
The two are happy with each other, and the white head is not separated.
The republic of China talented women Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng are the template.
Before marriage, Liang Sicheng asked her why I was me?
Lin Huiyin said: "The answer is very long, I am ready to use my life to answer, are you ready to listen?" “
And the end of the story of "Love in the Time of Cholera" is equally romantic: Fermina asks Alyssa, we are on the cruise ship, so how far did it go back and forth?
"Once in a lifetime." He said.
Author: Muzi Reading
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