“Ahhhhhhhh, I wish I could stay like this forever.”
“Hm?”
“You know, relaxing on beach chairs in the shaded Sun and a gentle breeze, watching the water gently lapping at the shoreline, cool lemonade in hand, listening to the gulls and crows and what-not.”
“Crows? On the beach?... Oh yeah, they’re here too, imagine that.”
“As I was saying: everything right now is Perfection with a capital ‘P’, and I wish we could stay like this forever.”
“Huh, yeah, no you don’t.”
“EXCUSE me?! I think I know what I’m talking about?!”
“You sure think you do.”
“OK, All-Mighty Omniscience, whyever would I not want to stay in Paradise forever?!”
“First of all: you said it was ‘Perfection.’”
“Seriously?!”
“And secondly: you’d get tired of it.”
“No I wouldn’t! I love every single moment we’re in right now! Well, not this exact moment since you’re ruining it, but all the ones before it and the ones soon to come afterward!”
“Yeah, but that only lasts for so long. Soon enough, you’ll get muscle cramps, or it’ll feel too hot, or it’ll get too cold when the Sun starts setting, or you’ll start getting hungry and want dinner, or you’ll get tired and want to go sleep in your bed.”
“Fine-fine, I get where some of that stuff comes into play, so theoretically, if nothing in our circumstances in this moment could change, then I wish we could stay like this forever.”
“Yeah, no – you’d get bored.”
“I would not!”
“You would too: anyone would if they were stuck in the same position forever. You didn’t even bring a book to read.”
“Because this time I wanted to truly appreciate the beauty of Nature!”
“And if you never move from this spot ever again, you’d better over-appreciate this exact segment of Nature `cause that’s all you’ll experience for the rest of your existence. Which apparently is forever, according to you.”
“I – but – Perfection – !”
“There’s no such thing.”
“…You ruin everything, you know that?”
“Here, go watch those dolphins who decided to frolic in the waves all of a sudden.”
“Ooh, dolphins, they’re absolutely Perfect!”