White Box

These skits just seem to pop in my head, and I roll with them as they go. Sometimes I don't even know where they will end. Just keep in mind that every other line in the other person speaking. It moves in an "A" "B" "A" "B" "A" type of pattern. Thanks for viewing!

"And if I gave you everything?"

"I'd be no different."

"I'm not talking about materialistic shit."

"I know what you're talking about. And I told you how it'd change me."

"But it won't change you."

"Because you could never give me everything."

"...WHY must your standards be so high?!"

"I never asked for everything. But you asked me a simple question, so you received a simple answer."

"So, if I asked you a difficult question--"

"--you'd receive an intelligent answer."

"So, if I gave you everything--"

"--everything I ever wanted."

"In a life--"

"--an imperfect life--"

"ALL the answers to life--"

"--or the answers to nothing."

"In a white box--"

"--a silver--"

"NO, a white box--what would you do?!"

"I think the box would be black, actually."

"Why do you think it'd be black?!"

"Because such an answer is demoni--"

"But it's complicated."

"No, it's the Devils work."

"Cannot the Devil's work be complicated?!"

"...I suppose you're right."

"What if...what if I could really give you all the answers to the life you seek...?"

"You'd be the Devil."

"I have a white box."

"Are you the Devil?!"

"Take it."

"What? No."

"Take the box and open it."

"I don't want it."

"You said it wouldn't change you."

"I lied."

"Isn't that the Devil's work? Lies."

"You are the Devil."

"Aye, but I'm not."

"Yes. Yes, you are."

"You know fifty years from now, you're going to wish you opened the box."

"...I- I- cant do this."

"What would you do if I gave you EVERYTHING? If I gave you every answer you ever searched for in such an impervious life, and I hand it to you in a white box?!"

"I'd hand it back to you."

"Then take it."

"..."

"..."

"What will happen when I open it?!"

"I cannot predict such a fate."

"But I told you I'd hand the box back to you."

"You did tell me that."

"But I knew I wouldn't--it's still in my hands."

"I knew you wouldn't."

"But I didn't tell you I'd open it."

"No, you didn't."

"How is it you have never opened it?!"

"Because I don't know what it contains."

"Then open it."

"I won't."

"Then keep it."

"...if I gave you everything, what would you do with it?!"

"Nothing."

"Why?!"

"I'd be bored."

"Why?!"

"It would tear me apart."

"So, you're not the Devil?!"

"I never said the Devil couldn't fall."

"I suppose he does."

"...the box is empty."

"What?! Why'd you tell me that?!"

"I lied. I'm the Devil."

"It can't possibly be empty!"

"Then open it."

"Fifty years from now--I'll open it."

"I'll return in fifty years."

...

"Have you opened the box yet?"

"How did you know where to find me?!"

"I don't search. These things come to me naturally."

"I opened the box--"

"--the very moment I walked away fifty years ago, mmmmmm..."

"I did."

"So what did you find?!"

"You didn't know what was in the box, did you?!"

"I did."

"I found a note."

"A note?!"

"Yes, an invisible note written in invisible ink that told me to allow no Devil inside of my home."

"You have become feisty in your old age."

"The box contained nothing."

"But, the Devil always lies."

"I do."

"Because you want to know what I really found?!"

"You found nothing--"

"No, because you lie, I found everything."

"But it still contained nothing."

"It contained everything--don't you see. My first thoughts were so obliviously obscure--almost on the verge of suicide. Then, I thought my time in this life is so incredibly short. What I found in itself is life. My love for skydiving grew, traveling to wonderful lands, my husband who is just as kind to me today as he was 42 years ago, my 7 children, my 36 grandchildren, my home, my friends I made in college, the very very very pulsing heart in my chest... Please, open the box."

"...it's photographs."

"Of every experience that has ever made me cry, scream, laugh, love, or give me chill bumps. Stay optimistic--you will get someone one day."