Hour-Long Phone Calls || Acharya Prashant

What do you think lovers talk about in their daily 4-hour phone calls? Are they sharing scientific discoveries with each other? Are they sharing sublime literature with each other, great poems? Are they talking of depths of wisdom? Are they discussing geopolitics? Are they discussing neuroscience? Are they discussing anything of any worth?

No, they are expressing themselves to each other. And you know what that’s all about. Let the sound of rubbish being flushed down the commode reverberate. That’s the telephonic conversation. And they think of it as closeness, as love is not love. Love is to handhold the other and pull him up, not bury the other under the weight of your infinite nonsense.