Alex and Alix

The original creation was done using different names so I've removed the portion wherever anyone was addressed by name. Let me know what you think.


Alex: Do you come here often?

Alix: Just when I need to get out, and I need to get out alone.

Alex: You mean when you are sad.

Alix: Not exactly, but yeah, when I’m quite a bit below the line and I can’t even remember why.

Alex: You’re aware that time has an amazing feature by which it keeps flowing…

Alix:...and instead of wandering around the city, if I would just go to sleep, there’ll be a new morning, a new beginning waiting for me. Is that what you want to say?

Alex: Not just that. I get your point, I know that everyone is aware of what’s right. The point is to stop running, step out of the path, jump off the tripod, and stumble on a different sight altogether.

Alix: Tell me something, if you were to photograph one thing tonight, here, what would that be?

Alex: I don’t know… Oh! Wait, I don’t see anything more beautiful than the moon at this time of the day.

Alix: Even though you know that you might get an exact same view, possibly in a fortnight and maybe a thousand other times in your lifetime?

Alex: Probably, yes. But how is that relevant?

Alix: You talk so condescendingly, so proudly about looking at things differently that you’re unable to recognize the beauty in the things so obvious. You oblige yourself to look for something different, something better in the very same things over and over again. THAT in itself is another obsession.

Alex: It’s so not true. If I’m trying to review a particular matter so as not to, as you said, ‘forget what I’m sad about’, it doesn’t mean that I’m unable to see other things. It just means that I choose to ignore other irrational things for the time being…

Alix: That is what an obsession is my dear, you know, you feel distracted when you are distracted. You haven’t chosen to ignore other things, you have grown habitual to you obsession, just because it’s easier that way.

Alex: Perhaps, you’d have noticed, given such philosophical knowledge of yours, that you have a tendency to project your feelings as facts. Not everyone is a fan of such acuity.

Alix: So considering this ‘everyone’ of yours or anyone for that matter, you’d rather prefer to be an object of appreciation than to be a subject of admiration.

Alex: No, it’s not for me or for you to be or not to be. It’s about how the world around sees me and the very creation of me as of now and any other time is affected by it. Self-righteousness as you know it can be most dangerous of all its kinds and life is, trust me a luxury for those who accept this.

Alix: A concept and an idea is all it takes to create something or someone, and if and when you set out to create something, you discover more than you could ever create. That is what, in fact materializes your mere being to what you want to be or to what the world around has made you. And then what most of us do? Choose the ‘luxury’ and deem ourselves as the reviewers of any other of such discovery.

Alex: I completely agree with what you’re saying, but just because something is easy it doesn’t have to wrong. The concept, the idea, the creation altogether is meant to be realized. Isn’t it? All I’m trying to say is that anyone, sensible, will choose realization over absolute abstraction.

Alix: Absolutely, indeed anyone will, but it’s going to take quite a few visits to this realization to actually part the half grown grass from the half diminished one, or a day will come when everything has faded away and you realize that nothing was ever growing. You however took an extra step each time to reach there and find everything somewhere in between…

Alex: And by then you’d have convinced yourself that the matter is out of control, and if only there was another line of sight to this. Oh! Wait, that is what I’ve been doing so far, and I haven’t been ‘sad’.

Alix: Yes, to some extent you are right, it does help. But there is always a tradeoff between the time you spend manipulating the situation for a desired ending and preparing for an unexpected one.

Alex: And whatever comes up, afterwards at certain point we always realize that it is never much different…

Alix: … from what we expected?

Alex: Yes exactly, not much different from what we expected.

Alix: Isn’t it vividly easy to disagree? You can disagree with someone, even if you haven’t formed an opinion of yourselves yet.

Alex: What can I say? I guess we are just two tough people who have a knack for easy things.