More often than not, you encounter days where you just want someone in your life. This can be triggered by watching romantic comedies, reading an article on the internet or seeing your best friend happily settled with someone. Yes, they come, and they're perfectly natural, but are you sure that's what you really want?
常常在某些瞬間,你莫名渴望生活中能出現另一半。或許只因剛剛看過幾部浪漫喜劇、在網上讀到某些文字,抑或因為看到好朋友都喜滋滋牽上了手。他們是如此自然而又完美地出現在一起。可是,你確定這當真就是自己想要的嗎?
1. You're just in love with the concept of love.
你只是喜歡愛情本身的美好。
Cliché but this is most likely the situation if you think a relationship will save your life's monotony. People always have a romanticized notion of what having a boyfriend or girlfriend would make them feel like. You toy with the idea of having someone constantly with you, the dates and the candlelit dinners, but the exhilaration of having one only lasts in its early stages. If you expect too much from it you might jump into the first potential relationship you find and end up disappointed.
雖說陳詞濫調,但也確實如此:如果你以為戀愛能救你擺脫無聊乏味,那必定只是喜歡“戀愛”字面的蘊意。人們對談男女朋友總是充滿過于浪漫的幻想,覺得身邊會一直有人陪伴、能享受數不盡的約會和燭光晚餐。其實,這種情調只會短暫出現在戀愛初期。要是你懷著過高期望一頭扎進去,最后只能失望收尾。