Over Thin Crust Pizza

“In committing yourself to a relationship,” I said.
“You have accepted the fact to eventually let go.”
He said nothing to this but just continued to play with his SE750i phone.
“And in falling in love, you must also be ready to fall out of love,” I added.
He raised a brow to this.
“People fall in and out of love all the time,” I sighed. “It is not something unusual”.
Silence.
“Letting go of someone does not necessarily mean that you cease to love that person.
Sometimes there is a need to let go as much as to hold on,” I said.
“Detachment -” I paused.
“Yes, detachment is the correct word for it,” he said. “It is very similar to anger.”
“Yes,” I agreed.
“You acknowledge your anger but you can choose not to dwell on it,” he explained.
We were silent for a moment, enjoying our thin crust pizza.
“The problem with relationship is that you’d start building and dreaming about the future–“
“But what is wrong with that?” he asked.
“Nothing really,” I said.” As long as you don’t expect one to promise you his future.
For how could one pledge his future when all we really have is just….here and now?”
“And you have made up your mind to eventually let go,” he said.
“I have made up my mind to seize each moment as it comes,” I protested.
He watched me intently now.
“Dreaming motivates us towards actualization,” I said.
“But you cannot expect the other to share your vision for always, no matter how intimate the relationship has become.
You must credit yourself and other people the capacity to change and to choose.”
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