As I make my way through the first season of Borgen, a Danish political drama on TVO.org, there was an bizarre sense of familiarity to some past life experiences. One having to do with my affinity to politics and "radical" groups, another related to relationships as I had mentioned in a previous post.
The Birgitte's spin doctor, Kasper, is being somewhat of a jerk, actually a total jerk, towards the journalist Katrine since he's known that she is involved with someone else. That individual happens to be her spinning, cycling without going anywhere, instructor. Not a terribly intelligent coincidence, but one that does bring up the nature of communication and in some instances, the lack of it. The relationship between Katrine and her instructor falls apart as she gets angry with him for his lack of awareness of current events, in particular a story that she is covering. I felt some guilt seeing that scenario as I lacked empathy, or passed judgment, to a person who told me that she has no interest in the news.
It also made me wonder about the person who I really liked, who had a strong sense of interest in current events, may have developed an interest in someone who is more visceral, a physical man, rather than the cowering "nice guy" I tend to be. Kasper disgusts and inspires me. Disrespectful, yet assertiveness and confidence are a few of the traits that define the man. His persistence is one of a coward, but also reflective of someone who does not accept defeat. With regard to regaining the attention of Katrine, time is my only guess will tell.
At this moment, like I have been since last month, struggle between attempting to re-initiating contact with the one who left me in silence, and nothing more than a sense of total failure. There is nothing to be forgiven, it is just silence, yet one, for which I understood, that not having any time for me means having no interest.
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