You don't keep love by finding the right person. You keep it by choosing the same person, quietly, across years — and that choice is available today.

The thought behind it

It speaks on behalf of a version of you who does not exist yet, and asks you to act for them anyway. Couple treats love as a choice made again on the ordinary morning, not a feeling that happened to you once. “23” is doing the work: it is where the line stops describing you and starts asking something.