“Never wanted to feel this pain.
Never watned to feel so sad.
Never wanted to feel this way.
Today.
Today.
Today.”
- Bluebird of Happiness, Mojave 3 -
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- Are we unhappy, or are we just pretending to be unhappy?
- What do you mean?
- Are we just pretending to be unhappy to add drama to our lives so that we seem somehow more substantial? I mean, think about it: our lives are embarrassingly easy. We’ve got plenty of money. We got friends. Well, you’ve got friends. There are people out there who have real problems, you know, real reasons to be unhappy. I mean, I could be a coal miner dying of black lung or something. You could be a Cincinnati crack whore on food stamps.
- What?
- I don’t know. Doesn’t it feel like we’re faking it, our unhappiness?
- No. No, it’s real. It’s very real.
- You’re useless.
- Yes.
- You’re totally useless.
- Yes, I am.
- What is wrong with you?
- I don’t know what to do with my hands!
- Jen and my sister and Liv all envied me. I had the one who made me laugh. What happened? I don’t know what happened.
- You stopped laughing.
- I don’t know what we were so unhappy about. I mean… what could we have been so unhappy about? Eight… I guess you’re too young to know that you can get over anything.
- I have a problem with my hands.
- What do you mean?
- They won’t do what I want them to do.
- What do you want them to do?
- Anything. I don’t know, something useful. I want them to build something or make something.
- I just wanted a little warm thing, something simple I could start with, a single relationship with a person that was new and pure, where I could be me and they could be them, and that was all that was expected. And we could build this world where there was someone else other than me to think about and be about, the relief of being able to give the world to someone else and just let it be theirs, let them have their turn, so it doesn’t end with me.
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Aprirti lo stomaco davanti a uno sconosciuto quando non lo fai nemmeno davanti a te stessa non e’ una cosa facile.




























