it starts with 'i'

Kind of like how the first line in Linkin Park's 'In the End' song goes - but the only difference, and the crucial difference, which I have learned is that it all begins with 'I', the self, and not, nay, never - love.

It cannot be, you see. Why? Love is not eternal. Were it eternal, then how could I stop feeling the way I used to feel, that feeling I believed to be love, for certain people who used to belong? You may argue, too, that the self disappears after a period of time on Earth and thus, it cannot be eternal as well.

Well, smarty pants. Eternity, I believe, lasts for as long as you exist. So as long as I, this self, exists - I am eternal.