I once came across a topic that many people were discussing:
If you are destined to have no outcome with someone, yet you love this person so deeply, would you choose the process — or would you turn around and leave?
One highly-upvoted answer said:
What is the result?
Is marriage considered a result? But marriage may still lead to divorce.
Is growing old together a result? Yet one person will eventually leave first.
Between two people, there is no secular, definitive “result.”
Sometimes, the more you desire a result, the more pain you bring to yourself.
So, having had it once is already good enough — why demand so much?
Meeting each other is already the best arrangement.
Accept it, and face it calmly.
So, it doesn’t matter.
Sometimes, being in love itself is the result.
Yes, being in love is the result.
If it were me, I would hold on to these days until I can no longer hold on.
Hayao Miyazaki once said a very romantic sentence:
“Actually, I knew early on that we were not suitable, but I still rejected everyone and accompanied you on a journey without any results. Although the time was not long, I will never forget it.”