audience:
how do you feel?

character 2:
you know what? sometimes things just fall apart. people grow tired, people can’t cope, people become jealous, people stay stubborn. they handle things as they always have, maybe out of fear or laziness, or most likely out of a sort of habitual auto pilot. sometimes we make the ending we want the story to have when it doesn’t work out the way we really want, or we just make it the way people want to hear it... kind of like describing what was actually a bad vacation or what we were like in high school. as we'd like to see it.

what did you expect?

what did you expect?

[drifts.]

you can't admit that. that's not anything that anyone wants to hear.