David: Hey!
Milica: Oh, this is Anna.
David: How can Anna be there when it says “Milica is typing…”?
Milica: I’m inspecting Milica’s email.
Milica: She’ll get back to you as soon as she dries her hair. Byeee.
Milica: Hey, I’m here.
David: Oh, great.
Milica: But you’re typing slowly. Come on, hurry up a bit.
Milica: I bet you’re doing a hundred other things on the side.
David: Yeah, I’m slow today.
David: Regarding the disc you gave me, what is “battle-khaki personality”?
Milica: Military, khaki is the color of uniforms, camouflaged, and some plain ones. And battle, you know what that means, so just assume.
Milica: Someone who doesn’t mind rolling around in mud and then, years later, visits tourist-atypical areas, like the Gaza Strip, former USSR states.
David: If I only could get it…
Milica: And then hunt animals in Kenya.
Milica: Does that make it clearer?
David: No, if you read my comment, I still don’t get it.
Milica: Eh, damn it.
David: Although, you describe it vividly…
Milica: An old scout would be something like that.
David: …in that filthy language.
Milica: I wrote it on purpose to see what it feels like.
Milica: Pervertedly fun.
Milica: Although, normally, I don’t swear.
David: Pervertedly fun, is that a construction from the Flow book?
Milica: Do you have any of that in you?
David: Those flow elements?
Milica: That flow sensibility.
David: The book left it for us to figure out what flow actually is. It’s left vague on purpose.
Milica: The book is interesting.
Milica: Yes, a bit vague.
Milica: But that’s something geezers who need everything in neat boxes can’t understand.
David: I’ll write briefly about how I understood it after reading it once.
Milica: Flow can be whatever you want.
David: I don’t think you manage to read read everything I write here, and that’s not exactly flow, although it could be.
David: I mean, you won’t notice it.
David: Now seriously.
David: So, my understanding earlier…
David: And maybe still now…
David: Here it is…
David: Flow is a certain structure of people…
David: They recognize each other.
David: In many things, they go further than others, have looser boundaries. Life is more interesting for them. They understand each other perfectly in short sentences, and sometimes even without words, and they see things in various social situations that others can’t grasp even close.
David: There’s also a bit of mad behavior, because they don’t care about society’s judgment.
David: I won’t say more for now. What do you think?
Milica: My view, similar people recognize each other even without being anything special. These ones have something more. They have one more little thing, a trait, something twisted in intellect.
Milica: They’re free…
Milica: …and, by all accounts, often big sufferers.
Milica: But it’s enviable to be like them in many ways.
Milica: These types are erotic to me. There are few of them.
Milica: In a way, they’re weak.
Milica: Fragile.
David: Yeah, you described that better. I didn’t process all of that yet.
Milica: The older we get, the more of that we have in us.
David: Because of some of our unusual days, I thought we have a part of that in us, not a lot, if I’m not mistaken, so I wanted you to keep the book.
Milica: I don’t think you’re mistaken. But we should comment on it live.
Milica: I notice it in myself sometimes. By my open comments.
Milica: The clear intention to shock people sometimes and to enjoy being rude about it.
Milica: What’s that flow thing in you?
David: I don’t know. It’s hard for me to observe myself.
Milica: Well, maybe we recognize each other or maybe we’re deluded fools and children. What do you think?
David: I have no problem with being deluded fools and children.
Milica: Me neither.
David: Whatever it is. It doesn’t have to be flow. I don’t even know what that is.
Milica: It doesn’t have to be. Few know what it is.
Milica: When I reread it one day and maybe find more from that author or something about it, and if I understand a bit more, I’ll share it with you. I still have to say it’s a shame we’re not in the same city. Maybe life would be a bit more flow for us.
David: When you read everything one day and maybe find more about it and understand, do you know what you’ll say then?
Milica: What?
David: I know exactly.
Milica: That I knew it before?
David: “David, I figured out what flow is, so I’ll tell you. I am flow, and you’re not.”
Milica: Hahaha…
Milica: Oh, come on…
Milica: Seriously.
Milica: I urgently need to buy a computer chair. I’ve broken myself on this small, useless one.
Milica: I think flow has lost a lot in this century.
Milica: Imagine how interesting, refined, and strong it was in the 18th century.
David: I have an aversion to such a past, and the further it goes back, the worse it is for me.
Milica: Okay. Back to the present.
David: I think that since 1970, civilization has achieved something.
Milica: So, you’re a true computer guy.
David: I mean, I said that about society, but I believe there were interesting individuals.
Milica: Certain things existed then that no longer do.
Milica: Yes, yes, and individuals too.
David: Are you coming next weekend?
Milica: Yes. By the way, do you think Uncle Boshko will invite us to his atelier this weekend?
David: Hahaha. He will. And the next evening, we’re going to the London club. It’s on Laze Telečkog Street, left from the cathedral. You’ll like it. It’s a new place, interesting.
Milica: Sounds good.
Milica: Is Aliki getting in touch with you?
David: No. We haven’t exchanged emails, just a few times.
Milica: How old is she?
David: Nineteen.
Milica: You should be with girls around twenty-seven, twenty-eight years old, maybe thirty.
David: You think?
Milica: Yes. Right now, that’s ideal.
David: Maybe it makes sense, but this is new to me, and I don’t know if they’d be with me.
Milica: You need to be a bit more serious. Like your brother.
David: My brother is serious?
Milica: Yes, I heard he’s going to work at the university as a lab assistant.
David: But that’s not going to happen. They have an interview, and other candidates are there.
Milica: You doubt him so much.
David: I’d bet.
Milica: Bet what?
David: Marko brought me a hat, the one construction workers wear, with his company’s logo on it. Whoever loses will wear it when we go to London.
Milica: Sounds good. If your brother gets the job, you’ll wear the hat.
David: And if he doesn’t get it, then you’ll wear it.
Milica: I’d love to. I’m tired. Should we schedule tomorrow evening?
Milica: Tired from this chair, not from you.
David: Okay, I have a couple more questions.
Milica: What’s the question?
David: I had two. But I’ve forgotten now.
Milica: That’s not flow at all.
Flow People
