To love and to like

Have you ever thought how much you like your beloved one? How easy to love, how impossible to find someone to like. These thoughts were passing through her mind while she was sitting next to her husband. All her life was in front her, not behind. All her ex-boyfriends presented themselves one by one as if to convince her that they still existed. Indeed they existed in her life, at her present, perhaps more than ever. She remembered how much she liked them. How perfect they seemed!

This was an illusion, why am I sitting here next to this stranger, she asked herself. The next thing she did was to leave the room without saying anything, yet giving him a kiss. A last good-bye kiss.