"You will litsen to a short story "About Love", which is written by Anton Chekhov." " Hello." " I'd like to have this developed." "Kairat?" "You didn't recognize me?" "Askar Suleimenov, if I'm not mistaken?" "Of course!" "You didn't changed, still like student!" "But it's hard to recognize you though." "I know." "What are doing?" "I'm at the same place, university." "Up by Lenin street and then left!" "That's how I met my former classmate Askar who was studied physics with me in university and whom I haven't seen for about 10 years." "He invited me to his home and I went to 'cause it was Sunday and I wasn't busy." "Hi!" "How do you do?" "Hello." "Togjan." "Kairat." "We used to study together with Askar." "I know." "Askar told me already." "Let's go to have tea." "You're fine fellow that you are still in science." "Who needs it now?" "Only fanatics like you." "But all ordinary people went into business, like me." "You know, if I even like to do something else," "I wouldn't be able to make this." "Why should we do what we don't like?" "It's happiness to get satisfaction from your job." "Yes, maybe, you're right." "Do you remember that physics professor?" "Short, bald." "He liked to sleep at his lessons in this way..." "Yes, his name was Esimov." "How he was scared when the dean came in!" "It's how I met Togjan." "Now it's difficult to define what was so exceptional in her but it was perfectly clear:" "saw lovely young woman, fascinating woman, such as I had never met before." "I felt her someone close and already familiar as though I saw this face, these cordial intelligent eyes somewhere in my childhood, in my mother's album." "It happened in the beginning of winter." "Then all December" "I spent between my flat full of books and dreams of a bachelor and university where only one out of ten students wanted to learn." "I had no time to think on anything besides my everyday troubles but the memory of a slim and swarthy woman stayed with me all these days as if her light shadow was always in my soul." "I spent the New Year alone in my apartment." "I wanted to fall asleep earlier than 12 p.m. but it's impossible in our city." "After the New Year we had winter break in the university." "After the New Year we had winter break in the university." "So I had some free time." "I went to supermarket because its atmosphere is always happy and light." "I saw Togjan on ice-skating ring." "And again the same irresistible impression of beauty and sweet eyes and again the same feeling of nearness." "You've grown thinner, have you been ill?" "No, I just can't sleep." "You look dispirited." "When you came to dinner... you were younger, more confident and cheerful." "For some reasons you often came back to my memory." "On coming here I thought I should see you here." "You look dispirited today." "Next day, on Sunday Askar, his wife and daughter went to the mountains to ride on sleds." "And they invited me." "I accepted the invitation with pleasure." "I returned with them to the city and at midnight we drank tea in quiet atmosphere." "Young mother kept going to check if her baby sleeps." "You see, when a murderer kills - his victim has a chance to survive." "Absolutely different thing is death execution." "In this case they also kill any hope to stay alive for a man." "This is terrible." "And any society shouldn't allow this." "Man, that's all just pathos, emotions." "We don't hurt anyone, and no one hurts us." "Killer should be in prison - that's all!" "Only in this case they will be scared." "After that evening I often visited their house." "Usually I went in unannounced." "If there were no one at home, I just waited forthem." "I talked to nanny, played with the child or just lay on the sofa watching TV." "When Togjan came back I met her in the hall as a boy." "Her look, voice, dress, hair, steps make me feel something new, something extraordinary in my life and very important." "Go watch your cartoons now." " Hello!" "How long are you here?" " I just came." "We didn't see you for long time." "Something happened?" "Everything is okay." " Hi!" "How long are you here?" " I just came." "Kairat." "Come to me." "There were no troubles in their family untill they met me." "If I don't come long, they thought I was ill or something happened." "and they worried a lot." "Often they said that I need to get married with smart worthy girl who would be a good housewife and helper." "They saw that I, educated man, work a lot and get not much money." "And so they tried to help me giving me gifts." "It looked nice and touching." "Great!" "Congratulations!" " I like it, too." " Do you?" "I was unhappy." "Everywhere I was thinking of her." "I tried to understand the mystery of young, beautiful, clever woman marrying good but narrow-minded person having a child with him..." "I tried to understand Askar naively believing in his right to be happy, to be with her." "I tried to understand why she had met him first and not me and why such a terrible mistake happened." "I saw a happy man who achieved the goal of his life and got everything he wanted, who are satisfied with his life and himself." "Always something sad was interwoven with my thougths on man's happiness." "Looking at the happy man I feel something heavy like despair." "There are so many satisfied people, what suppressive power it is!" "Look at this life: impudence of the powerful people ignorance and brutality of weak poverty and lies are all around." "But there are silence and calmness in all houses and streets." "We see people who eat, sleep, get married, become older and die but we don't see those who suffer, all terrible things are 'behind the scene'." "Everything is silent, and only dumb statistic protests:" "these many gone crazy, these many committed suicide." "Probably, this rule is needed:" "happy men feel good because unhappy people suffer without a word." "Without this silence happiness would be impossible." "It's general hypnosis." "'Schedule of cleaning the porch'" " Good day!" " Hello." " Can I come in?" " Yes, of course." "This is how our scientists live." "Kairat, sorry for coming without an invitation." "My car had broken near your house, and your phone was busy." "Do your girl-students call so often?" "Yes, oh, no." "My friend called." "He talks too much." "What about girl-students?" "Do you want some tea?" "Okay." "We talked a lot and were silent, and we hide our love from each other." "We're afraid of everything what could reveal our secret to ourselves." "I loved her deeply, tenderly, but I asked myself:" "what could our love bring us to if we lose our strength to fight against it?" "It seemed incredible that my sad love could break up happy life of her husband, children, the entire household where I was so loved and trusted." "Apparently she reasoned in the same way:" "she thought of husband, child, mother who loved Askar as a son." "she thought of husband, child, mother who loved Askar as a son." "If she gave up to her feelings, she would have to lie ortell truth." "Either would have been equally terrible in her position." "She thought she was neither young nor energetic enough to begin new life." " Thank you very much." " My pleasure." "The years were passing." "The family already has 2 children." "When I arrived at their home, everyone was overjoyed." "They were sure that I was happy, too." "Everyone looked me as a noble being." "And they thought: their life was more beautiful in my presence." "Sometimes I went to concerts with Togjan." "We sat side by side, our shoulders touching." "She checked time on my wathes," "I took program from her hand." "And I felt: she's mine, we can't live without each other." "But it was strange that after coming out of the theatre we always said good-bye and parted as strangers." "I guess I forgot my keys in buffet." "My congratulations!" "I knew you would forget it." "Luckily or unluckily, there's no anything what doesn't end sooner or later." "The time of parting came." "Askar's dream came true:" "he got job in the Embassy in Brazil." "It was time to pack all things and lease the house." "I helped them and everyone was sad." "I realized that it's time to say goodbye not only to the house." "They decided to leave at the end of March."