Sunday morning in 2016. You are turning 36. You hear the sound of the digital blood pressure control device. Mother, from the next room. Picking up your strenght, standing up, taking the garbage bags out. Then you are visiting your father, he's dying in the hospital. You see that thing and the urin bag filled with urin and blood in it. Infection, they say. It happens. You are feeding him. He is asking questions to you. «What happened to me?» «Did those years past so fast»?
«Life. That happened to you. They past quickly.» You talk with him, leaving, saying goodbye. Then you do the laundry, take a bath, buy some groceries. In the evening, your autotherapy is writing Or watching movies from your childhood.
Maybe you shall go out with your friend to visit a bar. His father died a couple months ago. Both of you are talking about movies too. You are saying:
«You see, most of our childhood heroes came back Reason was mostly money But in averige or bad movies, not like before. Superman became father in 2006. version Batman became father in a comicbook and in a cartoon. Indiana Jones became father Even Han Solo had a son. But what happened with us and the other people? Maybe we were not mature enough, not ready, we did not met a right person There was allways a question of money and compromises Now it's a question of existence. And we are still idealists. Geeks a bit, too. Perhaps this country does not deserve mine, or your child?»
He agreed And ordered the third beer. I did not. I knew that tomorrow is Monday and I got work to do And that the game went in the other direction Long time ago.