ted: Victoria seems like a great girl. Why wouldn't you want to marry her?
guy: Ach, okay, Victoria is wunderbar.
I'm sorry, wunderbar is the German word for wonderful.
There is a word in German: Lebenslangerschicksalsschatz.
And the closest translation would be... "Lifelong Treasure of Destiny."
And Victoria is wunderbar, but she is not my Lebenslangerschicksalsschatz.
She is my Beinaheleidenschaftsgegenstand,
It means..."the thing that is almost the thing that you want......but it's not quite."
Das ist Victoria to me.
ted: How do you know she's not Lebenslangerschicksalsschatz?
I mean, maybe as the years go by, she'll get Lebenslangerschicksalsschatz -ier.
guy: Oh, nein, nein, nein.
Lebenslangerschicksalsschatz is not something that develops over time.
It is something thathappens instantaneously.It courses through you
like the water of a riverafter a storm......filling you and emptyingyou all at once.
You feel it throughout your body...In your hands...in your heart...in your stomach......in your skin...
Have you ever felt this way about someone?
ted: Yeah, I think so.
guy: If you have to think about it, you have not felt it.
ted: And you're absolutely sure you'll find that someday?
guy:Of course. Everyone does eventually.
You just never know when or where.
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