hand. “I know what happened with Josh was unfair. I know how… demoralizing it must have been for you. But it’s been ten years, and I just… you’ve let him win. You keep letting him win. You don’t care about work, you don’t care about meeting new people or making new friends. You don’t date. You don’t have any goals or ambitions anymore. You laugh and make jokes and pretend like nothing ever bothers you, but you’ve given up. You’ve numbed yourself to the point where you just… you don’t live. You exist and that’s all.”

