It usually takes talking about it or waiting it out. The later takes a while and then you end up back here anyway. [He says.]

So far, it has been very specific what it wants me to talk about. Decisions I’ve made. Things in the past that are connected to me but, only because only I can bear the weight of those before. What is to be talked about is always personal in one way or another.

[He sighs and finally gets up. He walks over to the bar and fixes himself a coffee.] I hoped discussing a mutual curiosity of the universe might work. I should have known better.