'You really need to start living in the present and let go of the past', said he.
The statement that she has heard almost a million times from a million different people, was again being said to her, really meant as advice. As often she was given the same advice, she couldn't help but go back to her past again and again.
'Do I really talk that much about the past, that now even YOU are giving me the same advice?', she asked, frustratingly.
'I mean, yeah, of course, like listen I am sorry if I sound mean to you, but sticking to the past does good to no one and whenever you talk about your past, you go into a different zone and sometimes I am unable to connect with you, and the thing is I really want to connect to you but this past talk is a bit of a turn-off.', he accepted.
'But why is it such a big deal if I talk about my past?', she asked.
'Well, when you talk about the past we aren't able to talk about the present.....', he was saying when...
'But when we talk about the present, then only I talk about the past, like what happened in certain situations and you know things in the present are sometimes similar to those. Ok, tell me something why do you talk about the future so much?', she was starting to be her argumentative self.
'I am excited about the future and I cannot wait to see how it unfolds, putting so much into today just to travel to a better future, to see things that I have planned to, do numerous, endless things that are in my bucket list...', he was just explaining this to her when she said -
'But wouldn't that future turn out to be past someday?'
'Ummm.....', he couldn't say anything more.
'Of course, it will, so wouldn't it be as important when it becomes past? Or when you do the things from your bucket list, and achieve most of the things that you've aspired to, would they stop being important to you and wouldn't you want to tell everyone and mostly to the people important to you about them?', she asked him.
'Alright, alright, you win, there's no point in saying anything to you because you have an argument ready for everything', he laughed it off.
'I am not arguing with you, it's just that as much as your future is important to you and you are doing things in the present for it, the past has been important for me. My past has made me who I am today and I am thankful for those experiences that have shaped me as I am today. You like me because my past has made me likable to you. My past is an important part of me and I can never stop talking about it, so you tell me are you ready to listen to it on a loop or not, because if not that might cause a problem for us.', she said funnily.
'Ok madam, you win, now tell me, I am all ears', said he.
