The Conversation

(an Unresolved Conflict)


Cervello: Hey! What's up?

Corazon's face remains gloomy

Cervello: Yo! What's the problem?

Corazon: You!

Cervello: Me?

Corazon: Why can't you just help me? Everytime I fall, you just seem to watch and do nothing!

Cervello: [Processing...] I don't get what you mean!

Corazon: Why can't you instruct your messengers to deliver the message I want to convey? Why can't you ask any of them to show how I feel in any way?

Cervello: Hmm..........................because you won't like the outcome anyway.

Corazon: Why? What would be the outcome?

Cervello: Rejection? Unfortunate life? More hurting? This could even lead to an emotional dysfunction or personality disorder!

Corazon: And how do you know that these would be the outcome? Can't you be a little more positive?

Cervello: Well......I believe there's that bit of possibility but in your case, the negative results outweigh the positive ones. Thus it would be more safe not to send an order to my messengers.

Corazon: Ha! So I should even be thankful for your careful analysis of the situation?!?! Why do you care anyway?

Cervello: Because my friend, aside from the fact that we are partners...that one of us will hardly exist without the other...I have also been given the responsibility of taking control. I was entrusted with the task of guiding you, making certain that you don't rush in doing things that could endanger me, our messengers, our assistants, our friends and yourself. I am also here to shelter you away from pain. I'm only protecting you!


[SILENCE.......]


Corazon: But ain't those part of loving? Getting hurt...feeling the pain...going through the unbelievable....sacrificing all for the name of love! I believe it's better to have said what my feelings are saying and accept defeat if that's how it is. To love is to take courage! Haven't you heard..."It's better to love and get hurt than to have never loved at all"...Facing the consequnces is also a part of it! If I would have to leave everything I have just to be with that someone I love, then let it be.

Cervello: (with raised eyebrows...as if unable to comprehend) Love?

Corazon: Yes, love!

Cervello: What exactly is love?
(Corazon appears annoyed)
I'm sorry. I can't really find it anywhere in my archives (searches...) There's actually a file in here entitled "LOVE" but the data stored in it are so jumbled and in such a disorder that I can't make anything out of it.

Corazon: Love.....................is how I feel! It's the term you should have used to refer to my emotion!

Cervello: Oh!........................(thinks)...............................so how does that feeling go?
(Corazon annoyed once more)
I'm really really sorry! Maybe you could help me fill out the meaning so I can store it neatly in a new folder so that we can then refer to it without my constant searching for the word in this endless number of data

Corazon: ........................(wonders).............It's hard to explain! I can't seem to find the words...........you should know better than I do! You're used to words, phrases, memorization, and all that analytical thinking. You should be able to look for the right words that could describe it.

Cervello: Hmm...but how am I supposed to know which of those I came across is the right and truthful meaning. Whenever one of my messengers bring me the definition he was able to gather, another messenger would come to me and bring a quote or phrase that would disprove the first!

Corazon: Can't you just use your feelings?

Cervello: ...........................I'm sorry! But I was made only to think, decide and direct. I wasn't created to feel....


[SILENCE.......]


Cervello: (pats Corazon at the back) Don't worry, I'm sure another will come..

Corazon: (cuts him in mid-sentence) And another, then another, and one more another!!! When will this end? Everytime someone new comes along, it's the two of us who don't get along...

Cervello: When the right one comes...we'll get along!

Corazon: And when will that person come? Plus how do I know it's the right one?

Cervello: You'll just know...Maybe you'll just have to open yourself to my perspectives and then we'll find the one.

Corazon: Your perspectives! But that's always contradictory to mine!

Cervello: Well....I'm only after your own good. I can't just do what you like...The best that could happen is for us to meet halfway.
(Corazon's face a questioning look)
Compromise?

Corazon: And how do we compromise when we're always at the extremes? Our perspectives are too far from each other! You're always at the other end of the line!

Cervello: That's because you dwell too much on how you feel! Can't you use a little logic?

Corazon: I was created for feelings and emotions...
I'm sorry my friend but I was not blessed with that logic you're saying.