Many people often lament that time is like a flood beast, which will change everything.
Those that you once cared about, your pain, the love you thought were unforgettable, under the impact of time, sooner or later will become irrelevant and become a piece of history.
But is that really the case? I've always had doubts, and after reading the romantic love story of "Time Traveler's Wife," I've been even more dismissive of this claim.
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Because true love does not fade with the change of time, it will only become deeper.
What kind of story is this? Listen to me slowly tell you:
The male protagonist Henry suffers from a disease called time error syndrome, which is a symptom of time and space disorder.
Where is it embodied? The man was staying here for a long time, and suddenly disappeared, leaving only a pile of clothes. Then the person himself may have returned to the past or to the future, and go to a time and space that he himself cannot stop or control.
He will be thrown into a certain time and space, and then in that time and space there may be another him, or a wife, or even a child or a parent or something. So he is a man who wanders through different time and space.
Henry falls in love with a girl named Claire.
Claire was his wife, past his wife, future his wife, and now his wife. That is to say, at any point in time, he will go to see what kind of state his wife Claire is in.
So it's really about the wife of a time traveler who spends her life constantly waiting for her husband to arrive, or for her husband to leave.
Claire first met Henry when she was 6 years old.
At that time, she saw Henry, 36, naked, in front of her, and said: I know your name is Claire, I am a time traveler, I will disappear in a moment, you will see me later, I hope you can help me prepare clothes.
In this way, Henry kept appearing, at the different ages of Claire's 6, 13, 15, 16, 18, appearing in front of her, watching her grow, watching her slowly fall in love with herself.
The time in the story is very confused, and there will be a little confusion when watching.
At the time Henry was 28 and Claire was 20, it was their real smooth timeline.
They met in the library, and Claire came up to him and said, "My name is Claire, and I've known you since I was a kid." Henry was puzzled to hear her say this, because in the smooth timeline, this was the first time he had seen Claire, and the other party, from childhood to adulthood, had been seeing "the future Henry crossing over".
Claire said: "We've seen it many, many times, we've seen it 152 times in total.
This love is magical, Claire falls in love with the future person, and Henry falls in love with a person who combines the past and the future, and Claire was raised by her future husband from childhood.
When Claire was 17 years old, Henry was depressed.
Claire asked him what was wrong, and he said, "Usually I'm sent to you because I'm under too much pressure."
Then she asked something else: Henry, what are you afraid of?
Henry said: "I am afraid of getting lost in time and never going back. I'm afraid of losing you. I'm afraid you're tired of the life I've left behind, and I'm afraid you'll abandon me.
Claire said firmly, "I won't leave you, even though you always leave me." "
Henry's concerns are not unreasonable, because time is conserved, and Claire has seen Henry 152 times, which means that in the future, Henry has left Claire 152 times, so Henry is afraid that Claire will get bored.
Even under such a test, they still lived a happy life.
When Henry died, he left a letter to Claire, saying: "I hate to think about your waiting, I know that your whole life has been waiting for me, and every time I don't know how long to wait, ten minutes and ten days or a whole month."
He says that he is an unreliable husband and asks Claire not to wait for herself when she is at her time, to live freely, to love the world and to love herself in this world.
At the end of the letter, he said: I love you forever and ever, and there is nothing remarkable about time.
This is the last thing he said to his wife, and it is also the most beautiful love story in this story.
Our experience tells us that love changes with time, time changes us, time makes us old, time makes our feelings slowly become gone, time makes you have no sexual desire for me, time makes some people leave you.
But no, the story disrupts linear time and allows a person who can travel through time to tell us what time is, what I am, what love is.
Henry loved Henry's death, and everything was certain. Claire has always been in uncertainty, but whether certain or uncertain, unknown or known, the last love still happens.
So the final conclusion is still the same, time it does not change love, time allows us to enjoy the love we have now, a true love will not be changed by time.
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