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– Mushrooms, by the way… – Anfisa continued her thinking out loud, – …look like older people.

– What do you mean and why, by the way!? -Offended, asked Sergei Alexandrovich.

– Do not be offended! I just find the similarities between older people and mushrooms in wisdom and… quarrelsomeness.

– So you think we’re grumpy?

– Is not it so? Or what do you call endless discontent at times or youth?

– I bet if the youth dressed normally and talked normally, the old people would be happy.

– So you argue and say that if they were like that, than so!… And what kind of youth were you yourself, Sergey Alexandrovich? And what were your old people then were for you?

– Yes, we were ordinary and normal! And the old people always just grumbled like that!

– Hmm. The conversation was difficult! Why is it so difficult to find a common language with older people, – Anfisa thought, – I’m really ready to understand his old age! Maybe I’d better tell him about mushrooms?

– Sergey Alexandrovich, why do you want to fly to another planet? – she asked in a rumor.

– I just want to feel what life is on another planet!

– So it turns out so interesting, and over there will you be also criticizing everything too?

– Of course not! This is another world with its existing system!

– Youth is also a different system. Don’t you think?

– You got me. Perplexed. – Having fallen slightly into thoughtfulness, Sergei Alexandrovich was surprised at his own conclusion. – Why do we people criticize each other? And we think that somewhere it will be different!

But Anfisa decided to tell more.

– Do you want to hear more about mushrooms?

– Oh sure! – Cheered up Sergey Alexandrovich.

– So, the mushrooms, as we are used to think, can’t answer or rather they have a different speech. And if you just glance at them, it seems that they are just sighing. But if you look at the mushrooms for a long time, you see how they constantly turn around conducting conversations with each other. It is very funny to watch the mushroom couples, their tops touch and rub against each other. And big mushrooms with their hats as big umbrellas cover small mushrooms.

– It’s sad that people perceive everything superficially and do not want to see deeply without fuss and criticism, but why? – Asked Anfisa to Sergey Alexandrovich.

– Maybe because then you have to see your own depth? Or its absence?! – He suggested.

– Maybe so! We do not know the exact answers, we can only guess about everything! Elves say: look and listen to silence, and you will understand!

The conversation of two completely different people, has already grown into something more. They, with a difference of fifty-five years of age, acquired common meanings and they had the same questions. Anfisa and Sergey Alexandrovich no longer cursed each other, but each remembered their own youth, imagining up how it would be if?… They just laughed and were happy as if they were seventeen and they were old friends who lived in the same place at the same time.

Minutes replaced each other, visitors came in and went out of the dining room, and they, Anfisa and Sergey Alexandrovich, were there without noticing time.