Before Sunrise Page #2

I hate it.

I really hate it.

Well, you know, despite all that

kind of bullshit...

...that comes along with it...

...I remember childhood as...

...this magical time.

I do. I remember when my mother

first told me about death.

My great-grandmother had died, and my

family had visited them in Florida.

I was about 3, 31/2 years old.

Anyway, I was in

the back yard playing...

...and my sister had just taught me

how to take the garden hose...

...and do it in such a way that...

...it sprayed into the sun

and would make a rainbow.

And so I was doing that...

...and through the mist,

I could see my grandmother.

And she was just standing there,

smiling at me.

And I held it there for a long time...

...and I looked at her.

And then finally, I let go

of the nozzle, you know?

And then I dropped the hose...

...and she disappeared.

And so I run back inside

and tell my parents.

And they sit me down

and give me this big rap on how...

...when people die, you never see

them again, and how I'd imagined it.

But I knew what I'd seen.

I was glad I saw that.

I've never seen anything

like that since. But I don't know.

It just kind of let me know

how ambiguous everything was.

Even death.

You're lucky you can have

this attitude toward death.

I think I'm afraid of death

I swear. I mean, that's why

I'm in a train right now.

I could've flown to Paris,

but I'm scared.

- Oh, come on.

- I can't help it.

I know the statistics say,

"Na, na, na, it's safer. " Whatever.

When I'm in a plane,

I can see the explosion.

I can see me falling

through the clouds.

And I'm so scared of those

few seconds of consciousness...

...before you die.

When you know you're gonna die.

I can't stop thinking that way.

It's exhausting.

Yeah, I bet.

Really exhausting.

- I think this is Vienna.

- Yeah.

- You get off here, no?

- Yeah, what a drag.

I wish I'd met you earlier.

I really like talking to you.

Yeah, me too.

It was really nice of you too.

I have an admittedly insane idea,

but if I don't ask you this...

...it'll haunt me the rest of my life.

What?

I want to keep talking to you.

I have no idea what your situation is...

...but I feel like we have

some kind of...

...connection. Right?

Yeah. Me too.

Right. Great.

Here's the deal.

Get off here in Vienna

and come check out the town.

- What?

- Come on. It'll be fun.

- Come on.

- What would we do?

I don't know. All I know is I catch

a flight tomorrow morning at 9:30...

...and I can't afford a hotel,

so I was going to walk around...

...and it'd be more fun

if you came with me.

And if I turn out to be a psycho,

just get on the next train.

All right, all right.

Think of it like this.

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