Rebekah has never truly understood the meaning of forever, for she's never been able to really live, but she looks back upon them and it starts to make sense. Them being all those she's known, whether loved ones, lost ones, hated ones, and the unknown ones.
Forever is a number, infinity, that holds in its depth the dying souls and the new lives that she may never touch, nor love, nor meet but also those she has, can, and will.
Forever is Infinity. An infinity of her brothers, one of which is lost. An infinity of being the one who loves them the most but can't fill the void that their own forever has caused.
Forever is an infinity of the men she's tried to love, and the men who didn't love her back. Yet she tries and tries again because even if she doesn't deserve it, she yearns for it.
Forever is an infinity of hate and deceit. She hates Elena and all the grief she has brought to her life. She sometimes hates Niklaus for his deceitful brotherly love. And she hates herself as well because she will never be able to really fix it.
Forver is an infinity of wanting to be someone else. She wants to be Caroline with a mother who loves her and friends who would do anything. She wants to be Caroline who gets her brother's eyes to shine like stars but ignores it because she has a sweetheart already.
Forever is an infinity of death and new life.
Forever is an infinity of joy and sorrow.
Forever is an infinity of waiting and wondering.
But most of all, Forever is an infinity of memories.
Memories of laughter and play, of sadness and tears. Memories of what used to be and past mistakes that she can't run away from. Memories of old flames and the beauty of a growing world.
She understand forever. She understand infinity.