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He: What else does summer remind you?

She: Flowered dresses. My mom used to wear them a lot.

He: She still does...

She: Yeah... And I got that from her.

He: So that's why you like them so much.

She: Because of her also, yes. But it has something... It gives me a good feeling when I wear it. Peace, happiness, you know?

He: Well I never used one of those but I guess I know this feeling... Old summers when we had nothing to worry about. That kind of happiness.

She: But now we're adults and it's good even with the preoccupations.

He: Happiness... Never changes. It's a blessed feeling.
Like the hippies, they're now older and it's not even a movement anymore but I bet they're still humble about life.

She: My parents were. For some time, I guess before they've even met each other.

He: Nice...
I guess we are a generation of hippies' sons and daughters. That's why we feel so trapped about work routines and stuff.

She: It does make sense...
But our generation is called 'hipsters'. We work a lot more than fourty years ago, we complain a lot more about routine and we still haven't learned to love.

He: Hey. Not everyone though...

She: Of course not, you know it...

He: Now we're hipsters that listen to indie artists and get together with friends in reunions in the middle of the week, drink too much and go to work with dark cicles in the eyes saying that we're never gonna drink again.

She: Hey I only did that once. And it wasn't a reunion with friends, it was our engagement night!

He: Yeah... The next engagement party will be on a saturday night.

She: With your other fianceé, right?

He: Oh yeah. We already have babies. Twins hipsters, so cute!

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He: Are you looking at the windshield?

She: Mmm? Yeah... Thinking...

He: About?

She: Childhood. Traveling with my parents on the vacations.
I guess I used to stare it when I was kid. Somehow this thought came to me now.

He: There's nothing like our childhood days, right?

She Yup.

He: When I look at those old yellowed pics I remember about vacations also. Or force myself to, it gets harder and harder to remember every year...

She: It's something we lose so we can make new memories.

He: Yeah...
I wish we could just keep everything, recent or old memories.

She: Would be nice. Now we have applications for smartphones that takes pictures with aged filters. But it's never going to be the same as those small photos with rounded corners.

He: Nor we have those stylish clothes we used to wear.

She: Fashion comes and goes. Now we live in a retro world.

He: Retro world...
At least some things that once were good comes back nowadays.

She: [...]
I hope that in two decades or something the yellowed pics will still look stylish.

He: Let's try then. A smartphone artificial aged picture is better than no picture.
Plus... One day our memories from today will be gone. Some things we must enroll.

She: Even this rain.

He: Even this pouring rain. After that here comes the sun.

She: And I say "It's allright!"...

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He: The narrator on that movie was right. Most days pass without any remarkable happenings. That's why I value the little things.

She: I guess most days pass with difficulties. The good ones are the remarkable.

He: But we learn more on the hard days.

She: I kinda disagree.
For me, we learn with the hard and the good ones. No matter what we learn, there's always something yet to think about.

He: Or to talk about. Perhaps you're right.
Want more coffee? I know I want.

She: Not for me, I'm already tired and awake.

He: Just for me then.
So... I guess this is not an universal thing, right? I mean, we'll never be sure of what's more important for us to valuate things, the good days or the hard ones.

She: It's like discuss about politics or religions.

He: Or sports!

She: Yeah, so don't start it.
Most people think that discuss about things is boring or risky. And we don't talk about things anymore, we say our opinions and nevermind about different ones.

He: Yeah. It's ironic how the modern life brings us together and yet we don't talk anymore like before.

She: But not us.

He: Oh no. We like to talk!

She: Sometimes is funny how people look at us. "They don't ever stop talking? What a strange couple!"

He: Hahahah. Being strange, nowadays, is normal. The normal ones are the strange people, I guess.

She: That is an universal truth!

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She: But that's what I'm talking about... Happiness is something particular.
We can agree in one or two things, perhaps more... But it's different from people to people.

He: But there are some universal things. Like summer.

She: Not for everyone, you know...

He: Mmm.
Then what is happiness to you?

She: Lots of things!

He: Like..?

She: The little things... Don't laugh, it is not a cliche...

He: Tell me one and I won't laugh!

She: [...]
When I leave the computer on the shuffle mode and it plays the song I wanna hear.

He: That is simple allright.
I guess it's like spending the entire day with you. The big picture is too much happiness to ask, but the little things... They happen all the time, and there is the joy.

She: You got my point...

He: So tell me, why wouldn't you just play the song you wanna hear at once?

She: Because the best things in life are unexpected!
You know that.

He: Mmm I guess I do.
We weren't expecting each other, after all.