I tilt my head slightly.
"Don't you think?"
Alexander bites his lower lip for a second. He watches me... As if he were evaluating my reaction.
Then it straightens up.
"Do you know what I think of life?" he says finally.
He crosses his arms.
"I feel that sometimes, when we make mistakes... God gives us the opportunity to learn from them."
His gaze returns to Ethan's flowers on my desk.
Then come back to me.
"And what life does," he continues, "is to put that same situation back in front of us."
Make a small circular gesture with his hand.
"The same mistake. To see if we learned."
The silence in my office becomes heavy.
Alexander holds my gaze as he finishes his idea.
"And if we fall again," he says slowly, "it's like tripping over the same stone twice."
His lips curl slightly
