Re: postcard: castor & pollux.
[The card, blank, but wrapped in a note, and in the envelope, a book of mostly used matches with the words 'For when it gets dark' written in Castor's hand on the inside of the flap.]
Pollux,
This one? Someone's covering up a broken heart with being angry or going about trying to be romantic in a way that probably wouldn't work for most people. My guess? Jealous and unrequited lover, one moved on. One never did. One sits moves on to be happy, the other takes the poison of resentment every day until they send this. I'm hoping there's a happy ending to it, but I wouldn't think so. Not in this day and age.
Face to face is best.
I love the water.
And it's ashes. Sorry about that.
I wouldn't say you sound negative, but maybe more like the scales are tipped a bit more toward pessimism than optimism, but maybe you like to call it realism because it feels more accurate? I apologize if that's reading too far, but I'm trying to answer your questions honestly. I figure, what's the point of this if we're not telling the truth, right?
And they are kind of like something out of the movies. I'd say if you can bring one person with you, and you spend at least two tanks of gas, that counts. Three if you go by yourself and that's round-trip.
Human nature's not something we can't overcome. Our nature used to be to chase everything with a pulse, either to fuck it or eat it, and now we've got domesticated animals of all walks of like and people who don't feel like getting together in the carnal sense is anything they want in their lives. Nature changes with how we act. If we choose to blame others, than that's our nature. Maybe it's fake it till you make it, maybe it's that thinking the world is better than it is, but if I didn't think people could change? It'd be even harder to get out of bed in the morning, my ever-questioning friend.
What you want though? I think that's a real good one Pollux. A world where nobody hurts anybody? I'd take that. Never seen much point in it myself, or seen it do much more than ruin the lives of everyone involved. Seems something maybe we should have learned to do without, yet we've got people calling for the heads of Kings in old stories because they didn't like someone's opinion of the marriage.
Sometimes I think we really are fucked Pollux.
And to that, I'll do what I want right now and that's pour a drink and send you this letter.
Yours, Castor.
P.S. If you wouldn't fight for it, do you really want it at all?
P.P.S. Tell me a story about this card in your reply.