the fuck is this, the fuck is that

In any case, there's always some problem with everyone's life (at least, a lot of the time, blessed are those that don't have overarching problems that never get fixed, but even they suffer from not being used to trouble at all, we call their issues 'first world problems'). Life isn't a thing that can be controlled, unless it's a really boring life or you're sort of detached. Like me! And even then, it can throw you curveballs. A person is rarely capable with dealing with their own situation alone. Thankfully, the human race has empathy, and people higher up on the mental ladder to help others deal with it while at the same time kind of flubbing around with their own because they can't work that wizardry on themselves. But as some are higher, some are lower. Some are weak, unable to prevent big problems from happening to them, such as Zero and her apparent life situation, or Masaaki and his case of being impossibly dense, and sure enough, those are more plentiful and more loud. And not fixable with normal means. Masaaki needs to grow up, and Zero needs to find people she can actually trust, which I'm pretty sure isn't completely impossible if she actually puts effort into it.

...What point was I trying to make? ...Wait, I might have figured it out after reviewing what I wrote in the first place!

EMPATHY RUNNING IT'S NATURAL COURSE IS FLAWED, BECAUSE WE'RE NOT WIZARDS OR PSYCHOTHERAPISTS WITH ACCESS TO DRUGS. That's why I'm sitting on my high horse back in my homeland, because we're not the low rungs (well, most of us aren't, but the ones that are aren't getting anything resembling empathy, more like a blatant source of amusement). When problems come our way, we don't speak much of them...and strangely, that's because we can deal with it. Perhaps not to the most satisfactory conclusion, but it's certainly done! And that's the way things are in the first place. Deal with it, we must.


But then, there's the evolved versions of problems. Dreams! Dreams are a lot like religion. They provide something to aspire to, while at the same time the only reasonable people that do that stuff know that neither of them usually come true. Though, dreams are more likely to be attainable than a religion not being hogwash, so more people get drawn into that kind of stuff. The ones of more feeble minds give themselves impossible dreams and never think about them because they're already overwhelmed with just normal problems, while the ones who think harder give themselves large projects that are theoretically achievable with an amount of effort they, most of the time, do not have unless they're professionals.

And by the time they're experienced, dreams are suddenly your job, and the new dream is retirement. Life is strange.