Wednesday, August 11, 2004

I'll be fine.

I was thinking about Swingers yesterday and I remembered this part. This is why I go to the movies
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ROB
That's your problem, man. You can't see what you've got, only what you've lost. Those guys are right. You are "money".

Mike smiles, then...

MIKE
(starting to cry)
Then why won't she call...?

ROB
Because you left, man. She's got her own world to deal with in New York. She was
a sweet girl but fuck her. You gotta move on. You gotta let go of the past. The future is so beautiful. Every day is so sunny out here. It's like Manifest Destiny man. I mean, we made it. What's past is prologue. That which does not kill us makes us stronger. All that
shit. You'll get over it.

MIKE
How did you get over it? I mean how long 'til it stopped hurting?

ROB
Sometimes is still hurts. You know how it is, man. I mean, each day you think about it less and less. And then one day you wake up and you don't think of it at all, and you almost miss that feeling. It's kinda weird. You miss the pain because it was part of your life for so long. And the, boom, something reminds you of her, and you just smile that bittersweet smile.

MIKE
You miss the pain?

ROB
... for the same reason you miss her. You lived with it so long.

MIKE
Wow.

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