crafting happiness

16.12.2025

S: When my family were telling me to perform and to be a man, they said one thing. Find someone and make them happy.

A: They didn’t tell you to be happy.

S: No. They said to make someone else happy.

A: Strange. You are the one they love.

S: Love is a duty.

A: Why did it take so long to find someone to make happy?

S: They are the only one that gave me the honour of being a man.

A: You can only be a man if you are with someone?

S: It is children that do not have someone. They treated me like a child.

A: Enough of that. Forget the brutal past and your grievances with them. How do you craft happiness for one who you are with?

S: This is the trick of love. You think of their happiness. You find things for them. You share with them. You craft these memories for them, these experiences. You make time for them. You listen and you try to understand.

A: And can you make someone happy, you who is always full of sadness and rage?

S: There are the ones that soothe the savage beast. There are the ones that make the warrior forget about the bloodlust for a moment.

A: Love before duty?

S: Love is duty. My love itself is a war. The duty of The Tiger is always before me, the breath of destiny. The woman of a warrior cannot stop him from being a warrior. We are machines made to fight. To the death. It is what we are.

A: Give happiness. Happiness in the setting of tragedy. And receive the happiness of doing so.

S: The death of love is the inability to give happiness. Let us never see the death of love.