Mandy Len Catron: Falling in love is the easy part
מנדי לן קרטון: להתאהב זה החלק הקל
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in January of this year.
בינואר השנה.
is about a psychological study
in the laboratory,
trying the study myself
36 increasingly personal questions
שנעשות יותר אישיות אחד את השני
having gained any one quality or ability,
כשהשגתם יכולת או תכונה,
in front of another person?
לפני אדם אחר?
get more personal as they go along.
יותר אישיות כשאתם מתקדמים.
what you like about them;
to someone you just met.
אומרים למישהו שכרגע פגשתם.
a few years earlier,
לראשונה כמה שנים קודם לכן,
that two of the participants
to the ceremony.
manufacturing romantic love,
to try this study myself,
but not particularly well,
so I sent it to the Modern Love column
אז שלחתי אותו לטור האהבה המודרנית
are probably wondering,
you might be wondering this
אתם תוהים בנוגע לזה
for the past seven months.
what I want to talk about today.
מה שאני רוצה לדבר עליו היום.
on a book about love stories
about my own experiences
a couple hundred views at the most,
כמה מאות צפיות לכל היותר,
just my Facebook friends,
in the New York Times
to the traffic on my blog.
and Good Morning America had called.
וגוד מורנינג אמריקה התקשרו.
would receive over 8 million views,
the confidence to write honestly
has made international news --
that people across the world
in the status of your new relationship.
which they did every day for weeks,
מה שהם עשו כל יום במשך שבועות,
popped up immediately.
shouted up to the stage,
is part of the deal.
in an international newspaper,
בעיתון בין לאומי,
to feel comfortable asking about it.
ירגישו בנוח לשאול על זה.
for the scope of the response.
to have taken on a life of their own.
published a follow-up article
of trying the study themselves,
in the face of all of this attention
of my own relationship.
for the two of us
for photos of the two us.
for the process of falling in love,
feel qualified for.
if the study worked,
of producing love that would last,
לייצר אהבה שתתמשך,
sustainable love.
אלא אהבה אמיתית, אהבה מקיימת.
I didn't feel capable of answering.
was only a few months old,
the wrong question in the first place.
את השאלה הלא נכונה מהתחלה.
we were still together really tell them?
אנחנו עדיין יחד?
of doing these 36 questions
של לשאול את 36 השאלות האלו
about these questions
בנוגע לשאלות האלו
was not to produce romantic love.
היתה לא לייצר אהבה רומנטית.
among college students,
personalistic self-disclosure."
did feel closer after doing it,
used Aron's fast friends protocol
בפרוטוקול החברות המהירה של אהרון
trust and intimacy between strangers.
of the police and members of community,
במשטרה וחברים בקהילה,
of opposing political ideologies.
עם אידיאולוגיות פוליטיות מנוגדות.
with four minutes of eye contact,
עם ארבע דקות של קשר עין,
and it didn't work."
with the person you did it with?" I asked.
שעשית איתו את זה?" שאלתי.
better friends?" I asked.
know each other after doing the study?"
אחד את השני אחרי שעשיתם את המחקר?"
he was looking for.
that any of us are looking for
התשובה שמישהו מאיתנו מחפש
a really difficult breakup.
since I was 20,
I could make a life without him.
אני אוכל ליצור חיים בלעדיו.
about the science of romantic love,
על המדע של אהבה רומנטית,
somehow inoculate me from heartache.
איך שהוא יחסן אותי משברון לב.
this at the time --
for this book I was writing --
with the knowledge of romantic love,
עם הידע על אהבה רומנטית,
as terrible and lonely as I did then.
או בודדת כמו שהרגשתי אז.
has been useful in some ways.
I am more relaxed.
about asking for what I want.
is sometimes more
שמה שאני רוצה זה לפעמים יותר
by the person I love indefinitely.
על ידי האדם שאני אוהבת לתמיד.
if we were still together.
about the 36 questions
a shortcut to falling in love.
mitigate some of the risk involved,
חלק מהסיכון שמעורב,
do provide a mechanism
that most of us really want from love:
שרובנו באמת רוצים מאהבה:
the short version of the story.
את הגרסה הקצרה של הסיפור.
"Are you still together?"
some more difficult questions,
when things get difficult,
when to just cut and run?
into every relationship,
the answers to these questions,
at having a more thoughtful conversation
יותר עמוקה
of my relationship is this:
של היחסים שלי היא זו:
and I did a study
the same thing as staying in love.
כמו להשאר מאוהבים.
"Love didn't happen to us.
"אהבה לא קרתה לנו.
made the choice to be."
עשה בחירה להיות."
when I read that now,
I really hadn't considered
in that choice.
we would each have to make that choice,
יצטרך לעשות את הבחירה הזו,
to have to make that choice
לעשות את הבחירה הזו
he will always choose me.
and answered 36 questions,
ולענות על 36 שאלות,
so generous and kind and fun
כל כך נדיב וטוב לב וכיפי
in the biggest newspaper in America.
בעיתון הכי גדול באמריקה.
is turn my relationship
להפוך את היחסים שלי
I don't quite believe in.
I will spend my life wanting,
אני אבלה את חיי בלרצות,
implied by the title to my article,
מהכותרת של המאמר שלי,
that I didn't actually write.
to make the choice to love someone,
לעשות את הבחירה לאהוב מישהו,
to love me back,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Mandy Len Catron - WriterMandy Len Catron explores love stories.
Why you should listen
Originally from Appalachian Virginia, Mandy Len Catron is a writer living and working in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her book How to Fall in Love with Anyone, is available for preorder on Amazon. Catron's writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Walrus, as well as literary journals and anthologies. She writes about love and love stories at The Love Story Project and teaches English and creative writing at the University of British Columbia. Her article "To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This" was one of the most popular articles published by the New York Times in 2015.
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