I love TV series. Not because they are perfect - I don't even watch many of them to the end. I like this strange gap - the credits, the dull background behind the scenes, when the characters are already silent, but you are still with them.

When an episode ends, I don't turn off the TV right away. I sit, leaning my elbows on my knees, listening to the music slowly fade away, and think about what was left unsaid. Who didn't catch up with whom. Who lied, and who wanted to stay.

For me, this pause is the most important thing. In life, too: we rarely linger between events. It's over - and immediately the next one. A new task, a new "hello", a new season. But sometimes I want to take my time. Just sit in the semi-darkness of the room, watch the letters float across the screen, and think up my own endings.

I often come up with a different fate for them. That heroine who cries in the cafe all the time — I want to believe that after the credits she will open a new bakery and bake something with cinnamon. And the guy who hides everything under jokes will one day stop pretending that he doesn’t care. But I can think up the ending the way I want.

Sometimes I think that if someone were filming a series about me, people would also watch the credits and try to understand: “What happens to her next?” But while no one is filming — I am my own director. I can pause, I can click “one more episode”, I can close everything and just go to bed. And still know: the story does not end if you don’t want it to.