- Ajit is right; we're obsessed; we're all talking about love. We just don't have another subject.
- Okay, now as we've established it, we can move on to the subject?
- Mona laughs at me; it's so obvious we're not going to talk about anything else.
- We need to find another way to make love.
We look at it without understanding.
- Making love? asks Lina.
- No, no love, paradoxically that's the only thing that can stay unchanged. We have to find another model in which we can live with our love, our relationships, our couple, everything, this imaginary place called marriage and where we live really in our lifetime.
- Us here? In this the hour that goes too fast? asks Ashok.
- Not us here, but people in general. Mona is serious, determined; she attacks problems like she does see when she is preparing a critical project. First, the goal must be well established.
- Yes, I say, we talk about the human race. Who says we're obsessed with love and we don't find other subjects? Here's why we're doing it to save the human race from boredom.
- Exactly, this model of marriage for life is outdated, gone, unenforceable.
- And it's all the more serious! says Swati.
- Because that's not Lina or me, but the model exponent of the model, the only one of us is with marriage, children, the whole thing.
- She's not the only one who is married, among us or believed in marriage.
- Thought...the verb is in the past.
- I still believe it today!... I say.
- You say it with something that looks like hesitation.
- I don't hesitate because I don't think so any more! But just when I say those words, I realize that I actually believe in something else now, even though marriage tells it to me. At this age I have no memory of how I thought when I got married, it's been years since then, but it's not the years but everything that happened. Not only the changes in me but also the surrounding changes, this world we live in that gives us no answer for free; everything has to be lived---wrong, regretted, taken over, sometimes without knowing how to do it so that you don't repeat the mistake.
- Yes, I'd be ready to get married even though the biggest failure of my life is called marriage. And the most significant suffering is also called that marriage. And the thing is, I'd be ready to start over not because I'd learned my lesson and now, I know what to do, how to change the pattern as Lina says. Not that I don't know, but because I'm crazy dreaming about being in the evening with someone who's laughing at my fears, who's going to accept my crazy things and who needs me precisely so that we can watch a dumb old Bangladeshi movie together.
- You can call it a relationship.
- I can, it's true, but I still think about marriage, selfishly, about a man of mine even though I know that no one can be anyone's, that it's a verbal expression of a dream, and I hate marriage itself as an institution, but I love deep down the mystery I keep believing in, that two people can be made for each other.
- I mean, I haven't come to any conclusions.
- Exactly, humanity will begin a new day without a solution to the problem of love.
- Ah, I'm satisfied with how serious our discussions are!... Swati laughs.
- Let's say the debates will continue next week! And I'm not asking Ajit anything because I'm afraid we're going to come to any conclusions.