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A: “If one reasoned that temporary happiness is deserved after years of loneliness and suffering, then how are you sure that there’s never a second in your life that puts your heart and mind at ease? Why is it easy to say you suffer throughout your life when there’s a little moment that brings a smile to your face?”

A: “Similar to the machine, you’ve already experienced it but did you remember it? What difference does it make?”

B: “Which is why I would.”

B: “I simply wish to remember– let my soul feel that warmth even if my mind forgets it later.”

B: “When life suffocates me endlessly, it makes me forget those lights I once had in life. We all seek the star and moon during the night, why is it wrong for me to do the same?”

A: “You’ll do it. You’ll forget it. You don’t, you’ll still forget it.”

A: “Experience it or not– it’s just an experience.”

A: “Honestly, what we experience can be useful. Through happiness, we’ll learn hope and the bravery it takes to cherish it. Through suffering, we’ll know how much strength it takes to live and grow wiser along the way. To stand alone in the light alone is being blind but owning a library.”

B: “What if life is meant to be enjoyed but our complex individualistic thought has caused strained and misunderstood among each of us?”

B: “And why would you associate suffering with growth and wisdom?”

B: “Perhaps life has never needed to be that complicated. Perhaps it is as simple as waking up, smiling, work, loved, and rest without worrying about debt, illness, education, nor status.”

B: “Maybe the simulated perfect life is what we could’ve had if it weren’t our own flaws.”

A: “Exactly. Perfection would never exist.”

A: “We, creatures made of paradoxical flaws, could never achieve perfection without flaw. Our perfection is often an illusion. Beauty standard, status, wealth– you said it.”

A: “But how well can you live in an illusion while remaining aware that nothing is real?”

C: “Oh, please.”

C: “Emotionally, practically– people always finding reasons to justify their doing otherwise their actions would mean nothing.”

C: “And absence is apparently dangerous to us, humans. We lost our minds just because of it. Fascinating, don’t you think?”

C: “Stop giving excuses to fill the void of your madness and just live, will ya?”

B: “What’s wrong with trying to find meaning in life?”

C: “To find meaning means exploring. To explore means experience and experience means ‘suffering’ and ‘happiness’ if you’re lucky.”

C: “Didn’t you say your ‘Oh-So-Sad-Life’ needs a little ray of light?”

C: “And you, didn’t you say perfection never existed? Because it’s not. There’s no happiness, sadness, suffering, or whatever it is that humans like to nitpick and cry-me-river every second of their lives for.”

C: “Nothing matters. So if you want to live, just live. Stop thinking why Rock is a Rock.”

C: “It’s called being clear-headed. I’m not fueled by desires for happiness or knowledge. I just exist.”

A: “You are surprisingly bitter for someone who believes in nothing.

A: “So, you are nothing.”

C: “I am. So are you, and that.”

C: “So stop fussing over this simulated reality because it’s just going to feed into your delusion and complicate your emotions and thoughts even further.

B: “Why does that sound like gaslighting?”

Your perspective, moral value, personality and mindset might not be understood by all. Worse, mischaracterization.

But don't let that discourage you because that's just how the world works.

My belief goes:

"Be truthful with yourself and you'll accept yourself. Even when it's ugly or too polish, it's who you are."

It's hard. Difficult. Sometimes you think you're similar to this specific fictional character only for you to realize later that you're wearing a facade.