- I love you.
"Crap."
- Why?
- What?
- Why do you love me?
- I... Don't know. I just do. You make me happy.
- Do I, really? I mean, we've been going out for what, 2 months? How can you know you're happy because of me? Maybe you're just having a good couple of months. For all we know you could lose your job tomorrow, break your leg next week and then break up with me cause I drink all the milk and then put the bottle back in the fridge or something.
- Was that you?
- It doesn't matter. All I'm saying is: you don't love me. You may like me. A lot. But love is just too much.
- But I do! I love being with you, I love looking at you, every moment away from you is like hell to me.
- Well, that's not love. That's some weird kind of psychological addiction.
- So what if it is? I still love you.
- No you don't.
- Why are you saying all this? Why can't you just accept that I love you? Why do you keep trying to prove me wrong?
- Cause you are wrong. Love is huge. It's never-ending, intense in its mildness. It makes the small things seem huge and the big ones seem irrelevant. It gives life a reason. It's beautiful and awful all at the same time. Love is not like they show it in tv. It's not about liking someone, fucking him a couple of times, having a big talk with him where you tell each other about your endless love and go get married. It's not that simple.
- Sometimes it is.
- It's not.
- How do you know?
- I just do.
- So you're saying you don't like me?
- No. I'm saying you shouldn't go around saying you love people like you were asking them to pass the salt shaker.
- But I really do love you!
- Really? So when you see me everything leaves your mind and you just enjoy the moment, right? When you know we're gonna see each other you look forward to it like a child looks forward to Christmas, and when we're together you feel like the luckiest guy in the world, right?
- Yes, exactly.
- Well babe, sorry to inform you, that's infatuation. That goes away in six months at most.
- ... Look, I don't know what's wrong with you today, but I'm gonna leave, ok? You're obviously not in a good mood, and I don't wanna turn this into a fight.
- We're not fighting.
- Whatever. I'm going now. I just don't know why you think you know what I'm feeling. How do you know so much about love, anyway?
He leaves.
"... Cause I love you."
This. Yes.
ReplyDeleteI love it. And we should all be so lucky to feel these things and say them and be bold about it.
And you've written it beautifully and captured a moment. I love it. But... I already said that, didn't I?