Love dialogue
3 min readJun 13, 2022
- Do you remember what Roger Ebert commented on romance? I remember somebody once sent me the essay of a guy who studied all his reviews on romance films.
- Not really, no… care to share?
- Hum. Not sure if it’s exactly right, my memory I mean, but it goes: “It was all but normal that night. In the dense air of the arena’s penumbra, our eyes crossed. A spark was shed, ignited. The two until unrenowned souls were in trance at last, which now could mean the world. Without much hesitation, their lips approached nonchalantly while the eyes of the arena were elsewhere. The concert was no more, as now the show is being partaken in their own agenda.”
- Oh I see. A romantic essay on a romantic topic. Maybe romance is perceived as happiness to many and to me happiness in general is something too abstract. To me, happiness is not real. Therefore, doing something that is done for happiness alone is delusional. Taking that into consideration, I feel like he needs to work on some of his personal issues.
- On my account, I don’t think we can be happy for more than a few seconds. However, maybe some people can get satisfied by themselves. Who knows? Who am I to say? We can only try to find these little moments of happiness in our lives.
- Well, the whole idea of critical thinking and quarrels go together quite easily. However, it is not until we actually rewind and look again at all the shit we’ve said to each other that things start to remotely make sense.
- I see your point. On the other hand, even if you have all the answers that you could possibly have and they happen to be right, what would it matter? What difference would it make? The answer to that is quite depressing, to be honest, given that we barely communicate truth anymore.
- Aye. Even in small conversations, in the uber, at a bar, restaurant or a small bakery; at the shop, with your friends, family and so on; we always bullshit. The act of simply telling fabricated versions of reality to one another is what fails to keep us going forward. Living a lie is what builds society and what makes us, as individuals, irrelevant as possible.
- Hum, I think it goes further than that. I mean, take the most famous person on the internet. Now, imagine they said a perfect truth about something deeply important. Then, imagine the same person talking nonsense on a topic they barely know how to spell. Do you think the public would know the difference? That their fans would put apart the truth from the lies? Do you think that people would overwhelmingly care for what they just heard? Maybe, that’s hypothetical of course, maybe the audience will be divided on both occasions. Some will believe and some won’t. In the end, they are just as irrelevant as we are. It’s an irrelevance that is able to create some memories from time to time, which lasts a little over a few days. Yay! How exciting!
- That’s a bit rude of you to say, don’t you think? It’s also condescending as hell. Do you mean to say that the people who agreed with the truth are the smart ones and the others are stupid? Or maybe that all happened at random, that they couldn’t discern right from wrong, that they simply chose the correct answer by chance?
- Well, what I’m saying is quite simple, really.
- There’s that arrogance again.
- I mean, hear me out. We don’t own the world anything and it doesn’t own us back. The world doesn’t revolve around us, so our individual actions barely have an impact in the outside world. That even for famous people, their impact is limited and short nowadays, as we have all these things happening all the time. It’s a simple matter of chaos coming over order. There’s no escaping it.
- Fuck. Ok, I guess I agree, somewhat.
- Burgers?
- Sure.
