Love and Separation

Rationality was always the smartest kid in the class, but he never had any fun. His parents, Truth and Reason, raised him to be like that. When he was younger, he would want to play with his friends, but his parents quickly beat that out of him. “Those other kids are too immature for you” truth would say, “and if you want to be the best at oboe, you’ll need to practice as much as you can,” reason would chime in. People liked him at school though. He was great at solving problems, and came into everything with a level head. He was never sour about the past nor would he make rash decisions. Rationality was calm and collected.

            But as the years went by Rationality grew more and more distant from the other kids in his class. They would go to the movies or out to the park, but all he wanted to do was stay inside and work by himself. His parents were satisfied, but the other kids began to forget about him. Everyone knew he would be successful, but nobody seemed to really care. Rationality lost interest in everyone at school, except for one.

            Emotion had been popular her whole life. She was exciting and fun and understanding, anything you would want in a person. More than anything, she was excited about life, with an invincible passion for everything she did. Rationality saw this in her, and saw that she was everything he was not. He became fixated on this girl, and thought that she could solve his problems.

            One day Rationality approached her, but he was a little bit uncomfortable. He hadn’t talked to a girl, or anyone for that matter, in a really long time. But he wasn’t nervous, because he knew that it wouldn’t help him. He approached her, and he blurted out “would you go on a date with me? I think we would have a very good time. We could eat food which would trigger the sensors in our dopamine receptors, and then maybe we could uh, maybe see a movie. Visual stimulants are very exciting for the human mind.” To his surprise, she said yes.

            Although it was a little awkward at first, Rationality and Emotion had a great time. They were very different, but they found a way to make it work. After a little while, things got more serious, and rationality and emotion started spending a lot of time together.

            But then things started to get weird, Emotion started to fall in love with Rationality, but he felt nothing. Emotion started to feel like Rationality was being distant. He stopped calling her, and when they did talk everything seemed forced.

            One day Emotion reached her limit. She called rationality over and dumped everything on him. “Why don’t you love me?” she screamed, but he had no answer. Then Rationality left. He called Emotion that night. “I had a lot of good times with you, but I don’t know how to deal with your emotional problems. I can’t deal with something that I can’t succeed at. I feel as if seeing other people would maximize our expected well beings,” he said.