la grande seduction

The big showdown

He (shell-shocked): "What?? You what?! How could you do this to me?"
She (panic-stricken, afraid): "I'm sorry honey...am so so sorry, please forgive me... i love you!"
He (furiously, yelling): "Don't honey me... you betrayed me... you let me down! Why did you even bother to tell me?"
She (whimpering): "Please understand honey – It was Sandy, he gave me something to drink and i don’t know what happened then. I was high, i couldn't help it... it was a mistake. Look, at least am honest and am telling you... i could keep quiet about and you’d never know"
He (very hurt): "Oh yeah? So what am i supposed to do? Give you an award for your honesty? I could never trust you again. Go away! I don't wanna see your face..GO!!"
She (desperately, in tears): "Honey, i'm saying sorry, i truly am. None of this would've happened if you'd come to the pub with me... i swear. It's because of the alcohol. It wasn’t my fault... i wasn’t strong enough. I love you...I'll do anything to make it up to you..."
He (steely determination): "There is nothing you can do to make it better. It's ruined. It'll never be the same again. My will, my spirit.. it’s broken. I can't do this anymore. I'm going out" (rushes out the door)
She (runs behind him): "NO! No honey, please... you don't go, please. I made a mistake... you don't do the same. Don't get even with me like this. Please."
He (looks back over his shoulder): "No darling. I have to do this. All this time, you were my strength, my reason for being good. Now you went to that pub and had a smoke, so good for you. I'm gonna have one too. I've been dying for one for the last one week! You can’t stop me. Let me gooooo!!!!" (And runs down the stairs three at a time, with a crazed look on face and hands twitching)

And so he went back to smoking after 10 days of refraining. Maybe when he quits the next time – the eighth time - he’ll succeed in staying off it for good.

"There are two types of people: those that talk the talk and those that walk the walk. People who walk the walk sometimes talk the talk but most times they don't talk at all, 'cause they walkin'. Now, people who talk the talk, when it comes time for them to walk the walk, you know what they do? They talk people like me into walkin' for them"

Every now and then, things and people remind of these lines from Hustle and Flow, which, it seems to me, have got imprinted on my mind pretty good.

Moody blues

Everyday things delight me - different things, in different ways. And yet i notice happily, i don't get smarter, am never quite prepared for them.

Happiness has a different shade everyday.

Everyday things annoy me - the same things, in the same ways. And yet i notice sadly, i don't get smarter, am never quite prepared for them.

Darkness has the same shade everyday.