Alix and Alex- Part 2

{Alix giggles as the two walk down a mildly crowded sidewalk.}
Alex: “You know that no one likes it when you do that.”
Alix: “Do what?”
Alex: “That. When you make someone believe that you have something to say and then pretend that you don’t.”
Alix: “It’s just something I read somewhere. It has my mind working overtime. It had an intensely ironic central question. A part of it goes like this,
                                      My persistence would tempt the curiosity of fate to sway
                                      If only an insistence of fate would let my persistence stay"
Alex: “Are you making fun of me again?”
Alix: “I am not, if you tell me what was it that you were going to write after that.”
Alex: “I can’t. I don’t have the entire thing figured out quite yet.”
Alix: “Oh! Come on Alex. I know you don’t write unless you have a complete tangible idea in mind.”
Alex: “It’s a sensitive matter my dear. And given my articulacy, I do not allow myself the luxury of discussing it verbally, not with you at least.”
Alix: “Are you scared Alex, scared that the dexterity of your sensitivity will render it unreal in some way?”
Alex: Tell me something. Will you be convinced if I stated it factually that people, you and I for instance, live in different worlds?
Alix [interrupting him]: “Is that a question for me to answer or are we already inside your secret topic?”
Alex: "Both, I’ll have to say. And that an individual is only capable of fancying or despising someone else’s world, not his own.”
Alix: "Maybe… If it’s the ‘trying to be someone else’ saga you are referring to, yeah absolutely."
Alex: “Like they always say, ‘Be yourself’ and most of us reply by 'how the hell could I possibly be anyone else'. But then one day when you stop running and look back and all you can come up with is- ‘Oh shit!’”
Alix: “It is agreeable to some extent. We all have been in depths of melancholy when a longing exists and in paralic waters where our mere existence feels shallow.”
Alex: "Yeah exactly. That was the entire idea."
Alix: "And what about the two lines I accidentally stumbled on?"
Alex: "That life always brings you back to yourself. You get out of bed one day watching your dreams come to life. But it’s only when something knocks you off-track, it occurs to you that you are still dreaming, just sleepwalking instead…"
Alix: "…And you stop trying to be anyone, but just accept who you really are."
Alex: "Yeah, right. So now, in just less than 15 minutes you have officially stolen its essence."
Alix: "But it wasn’t a waste of time. Was it now?"
Alex: "Maybe not."
Alix: "That’s good to know."
Alex: "Would it have been bad if I would have said ‘maybe’ instead?"
Alix: "Then, my dear Alex, it just would have been ‘not good’.”
{A calm smile takes over any other noticeable expression on their faces, as they walk down the mildly crowded sidewalk.}


...click here  for Alix and Alex part 1