William invests with no returns.

"It would give you peace and allow you to be present."

"How's that?"

"I've made some poor investments into people. I should go ahead and say that I should not have invested at all. But that's a lot to ask, right? I can start this type of conversation with you right?"

"Huh?"

"What I realized is that once there is no investment anymore with a person, for example, once you have removed your need for whatever it is you need from them; sex for comfort, mutual depression, mental abuse, food, just plain distractions from any supposed flaw you carried forward from your family. Once you have dug it all out of them--these rancid terrible stocks that you have buried deep into a person from day one. Once you have woke up and grabbed these dusty stocks, healed them and watched them dissolve in your hands, you begin to see a behavior--not a person, and then how you use to be dialed into it. You also begin to see that this person has buried something in you as well. You find that you both were not in a relationship but instead hiding out to protect your bad investments. You're on the lamb."

"Ok. Sounds like corporate malfeasant."

"Right. It is the only crime you can truly commit."

"What's that?"

"The crime of investment of course."

"You can't be serious with that conclusion."

"Why?"

"Crime of passion would have made me at least turn the page."

"Have you been listening? That was my point."

"What?"

"It's really crimes of fear."

"Investments for returns in this life is how things are done. You do just about everything to get some sort of return."

"Right. I understand. I am familiar with how it's always been done. But what I'm saying, if you want to relax, bring your voice down to a whisper, sleep through the night, see your life as if you're sitting in front of a stream, you will see that having great expectations can be an error."

"But you know that this will never happen? Plus I have a million dollars worth of 'hate stock' in a close friend of mine."

"Did you hear what I just said?"

"Huh?"

"No expectations gives you peace. I personally have experienced this. I didn't discuss the degree of difficulty because it's not as you think."

"Right?"

"Do you see where I am coming from?"

"Yes. But still what you are asking is arduous. And I really don't even know what your asking. I barely know what we are talking about? I'm distracted."

"Of course."