They were sitting together on a park bench. He in one body, she in another. Happiness was shining brightly, in sports outfit for exercising. With a smile on her face, she hummed the lyrics of her favourite song. Fatigue watched curiously with a gloomy gaze, trying to understand the cause of her joy and his indifference. He often wondered why it was so difficult for him to smile.
Happiness showed him the beauty of nature, took him to the park, walked him through the streets, pointed out the hopping of the squirrels in the trees, the almost inaudible sound of the breeze, the autumn colors of the leaves and the azure sky. She was trying to point out to him the notes of the orchestra playing in the park and the smile of the clouds, which would hide the sun for a moment with their wink, and then unexpectedly let it go again, to hug the earth. Fatigue saw nothing.
"Let's drink coffee and sit on a bench by the river?" she asked him, but Fatigue was too listless to answer. “Do you want to buy tickets and go to the theater with me?” she continued. "I have no will, everything is boring to me, these are such ordinary things, which I no longer look forward to. I don't know how to become You... Everything is uninteresting to me, and I am tired..."
"Are you ill?" Happiness asked."I'm not, but I feel like it."
"Mhm, you know what I did today? I drank coffee with my mom, played with my cousin, now I'm going to have a family lunch, and tonight I'll be looking at the sky, maybe with a glass of wine in my hand. For that, I'm not sure that I need company because I also enjoy in my own. Do you enjoy your own company?", she asked him curiously."Well, honestly, not so much, I feel more uncomfortable when I'm alone, but people also exhaust me. I'm constantly listless. I don't know what right now I have a good life in my life. I don't like my job, and my girlfriend left me. My family doesn't understand me and burdens me. My friends take away my energy. I paid for my vacation and took out a loan. Now I need to pack, and I didn't even manage to get perfect shaped body for summer. Loans are a never-ending story, so I regret taking that risk."
Happiness asked him again enthusiastically, without any reaction on her face: "Let's go cycling tomorrow? The weather will be nice." O Happiness, you are tireless, I really have no will. I admire your enthusiasm, but I don't want to.
"Okay, you don't have to. Than, I'm going alone.
I'll see you the day after tomorrow at work. I'm glad I met you and had the opportunity to spend some time with you. I'm traveling on Friday and I don't know if I'll be back", she said peacefully.
“What do you mean?” Fatigue continued. Aren't you going to continue coming to work?", he asked confused. "Well, it's my last chemotherapy and attempt... If they missed the right treatment this time too, I want you to remember me like this. I will leave you myself in my will, and the task of becoming someone else. If you have the opportunity to do so, and I'm ending my journey, then it is your obligation to continue that journey.
Don't, like me, get to realize too late, what it means to be happy, to see and feel life, sharpen your perception and remove the fog from the road.
That's why we met. There are no random encounters. It's probably too late for me, while there's still time for you.
The sad fact is that a truly blind person sees better than the one who has this blessing, because the lack of one sense allows to make maximum use of others. From this eternal desire, constantly fantasizes about the things it misses and imagines the most beautiful scenes. These scenes are in reality, all around us. We just often don't notice them.
"Do not be tired for life and rested for illness."
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