Dialogues
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justto check Last week we said we could offer dialogue betwen reason and desire; this dialogue came out, so I share it with you.
Dialogue between reason and desire on a quiet sunday;
Reason; Everything that I cherish most in the whole world is threatened by you.
Desire; That's cruel. Like you say, you already have everything.I am a beggar asking for a few crumbs of your time. Infact asking you to create morsels of 'free-time' where we can make the impossible, possible. How can THIS hurt anyone else?
Reason; It's inevitable that where beautiful values flourish, destructive tendencies will emerge. It's the natural order of things.
Desire; How crass is that! All I'm asking you to do is to listen. Not just to your head... to your heart. Where does the 'you', the essential 'you' exist - eh?.... the liver, the head, the heart, the crotch? You are a butcher of life, carving up your sensibilities on a slab.I can't look at my heart cold on a plate----- you'll have to pull out my tongue to silence me. Because passion IS me. It is you.(pause) You are dishonest.
Reason; I am not denying your existence. Desire burns at the core of me, offers joi de vie, meaning to life, colour to my wardrobe, punch to my coffee. It's true, I love you. BUT I made choices - equally led by passion.Past passion. Passion that's had time to settle. Warm ashes passion, where children live and breath as a result. I work daily to sustain the reality which flowers from this dis-engaging passion. I am committed to this reality. My strength of character is determined by how true I remain to these commitments.
Desire; So, passion is a static force is it?And the cost of your reason is your life force? Your faithfulness is bought at the price of your 'self'? When do you feel most 'you'? Tell me that. Not you the mother, not you the daughter, sister, wife, the worker, not you the contributor to society. Go on answer me. When are you most alive? most true? Most in the moment?
Reason; (silence)
It's selfish. I'm only thinking of myself.
Desire; And what about me? Your desire affirms me! Is this of so little value to you?
Reason; But you are not real. You are an idea in mu head. i will not walk away from the real world.
Desire; Why am I not of this 'real' world? Am I not and essential part of your reality; a blessing, a treasure, the gift. I am not just the 'bit on the side'. i'm integral , essential to your life.
Reason; Don't talk so loudly.
Desire; Why not?
Reason; People might hear you.
Desire; that's it isn't it! The forbidden fruit. the illicit. I'm the secret..... the fucked and then departed.... the maybe forgotten..... because you will never know, will you, you'll never know....
Reason; I can't hurt the people i love. Turn their lives upside down, burst every thread of home woven trust. Betrayal is a poison.
Desire; To deny yourself is the greatest betrayal. Pretending to the world and denying me..... yourself. You lack guts, courage, balls. you fear change....
Reason; No! I lack your lack of empathy. That's quite different. I stand in other peoples shoes. I imagine what they might feel. How i would feel if the same was done to me. I empathise. I care. You don't.
Desire; I think I do. I have the bigger picture that's all. Essentially I know courage and love for life transcends all these smaller details.... Everything emerges from the self. you deny the 'self'.. desire. you deny truth. you deny truth .. you have hypocrasy.. hypocrasy leads to........
Reason; I don't want to die lonely
Desire; So you prefer to live lonely. Lonely at heart. What a sad joke. I pity you. Become a nun. God is permissable. No one would judge you passion if you got real intimate with God. You'd be really safe there.
Reason; I'm not religous.
Desire; No, you're human.
reason: after all we went trough together it is time we clear some things: do you agree we are the best when we collaborate?
desire: i do.
reason: what do you think if from now on i support you and you support me.
desire: this is all i am asking from you all this time!
reason: as you know yourself your tendency is to go over all limits and you know i can't reach you there. you have to learn to listen to me. when i say we are having an allert you have to trust me. or follow your call, if you wish, but than, please, don't blame me.
desire: so many times you refer to so many rules which are so impotant (for you) but many times, admit it, following them you didn't do much good for yourself, did you?
reason: have to admit it is not very easy to recognize all the voices i have in me. i also admit all of them present themselves like mine and it is very difficult to find out wich is really mine. sorry. ours.
desire: you know me. when i burn i don't see anything except fire.
reason: all excitement and thrill i experienced is because
of you. you are other definition for surprise. you are engine of this
body we got. i want to be(come) your friend. i am part of you. you are
part of me. we are the oposites what means the same.
desire: ok. let's be friends. i won't be angry next time you'll stop me afer crossing the border threathenig both of us.
and they went for a beer. here and there they fight very much, indeed. but mostly they live happily. till the end of theirs days.
