There are books that take twenty or thirty years to be good, something that doesn’t happen with paellas. You rest a spoiled paella for twenty years and it rots. That’s why it’s easier to write a food critic than a book critic. However, there are people who prefer book reviews even at the risk of being mistaken. The other day, I went to a movie that I didn’t like at the time and that I liked. Did the movie change or did I change? Maybe we’ve both changed and that’s how we finally met. I spoke to a friend of mine who ran into a high school classmate she hated after her divorce.
“And now I’m in love with him,” she added.
And did you fall in love for the reasons that made you hate him or for other people? -I wanted.
“Perhaps for the same reasons,” he replied, somewhat confused.
We met for dinner because I was determined to meet him, and he seemed like a complete idiot, but of course I didn’t tell my friend. A few days later, as we were exchanging phone numbers, a perfect idiot called me and invited me for coffee, and this time he seemed like the perfect person. I called my friend to tell him this, but he was starting to fall in love now.
“I don’t like it that much anymore,” she said.
-And so?
I don’t know, it just seemed a little simple to me.
I was surprised, really. Likes are more volatile than cryptocurrencies. I bought bitcoin a year ago to do a report on the subject, and it turns out that they spend their lives moving up and down. When you sell it goes down, when you buy it goes up. By the way, we got close with my friend’s ex-boyfriend. He admitted that he really liked me when we met yesterday. I asked him why and he couldn’t tell me.
“Feelings are inexplicable,” he concluded.
I do not believe that emotions are inexplicable, but I do believe that we avoid the effort of explaining them because explaining their causes would put us in a bad place. I should have liked the movie I mentioned at the beginning when I watched it for the first time. It wasn’t his fault, it was mine. If I had more room, I would explain why.