Ken

"I'm miserable."

"You always have been miserable. What's the difference now?"

"Nothing. I just thought of telling you that to satisfy your sleepless conscious which tells you I may not be miserable. Of course there's a difference. Everything is different."

"Just because you want to be miserable in the form that things never change doesn't mean that things will not change. You can be miserable then and you are miserable now, but the fact is things will always change, people change, life changes."

"Really, then explain the damn pain I'm feeling now! You people always think I was miserable, I looked miserable, I dressed miserable, I needed misery. You're wrong! Sometimes in life there's more to being happy, it's being content. Content with who you are, content with things as the way they are and content with everything around you. Change is never for the better yet people change. Why? Because they are not content, they're not even close. Misery is just an excuse to hide the fact that people can never be content with their own lives."

"People change because they are miserable and, or content. That doesn't change anything."

"Yet it changes everything. See the irony?"

"So what are you telling me now? You're miserable because you're not content, or you're miserable because the person you love can never be content?"

"Oh, don't go there. This has nothing to do with love."

"Really? Then why are you telling me all this?"

"Because...I'm content, but I'm miserable. You do the math."

"If...If you think that you're miserable and she is not, then I guess...it changes everything."

"Exactly."

"People rely on other people. They need other people. I guess when you're content you've basically have nothing else to live for...except for the people you're content with and not yourself. Wow, I've never looked at it that way before."

"Life sucks, huh?"

"Yeah...Oh my God, have you been feeling this way all the time?"

"Misery is just another word of saying 'I'm not happy', what people don't see is that it also says 'I am content'. That's the beauty of it."

"So what're you going to do about it?"

"I'm the anchor that's pulling the ship down, I always have been. Everything else makes her happy, I make her happy too."

"But you're not content with happy."

"Everyone else doesn't upset her, I make her sad. Do you know what an ideal life is?"

"Having a beautiful wife, great kids, a satisfying job, and a normal life?"

"You idiot. It's having the person you want the most, and just forgetting about everything else. Society is screwed up. Everyone else is screwed up. An ideal life is when you put aside everything else and just...live with the one you love."

"Not everyone can get that you know. You're miserable...Wait a minute, you're not even content. You want that, meaning you're not content with what you have right now."

"You're missing my point! I'm in pain! You think I'm not content because I want something more! The fact is I already have that. The only part that is incomplete is the..."

"Other half..."

"Go home. Go back to your wife, get some rest and I'll see you tomorrow."

"So what are you going to do?"

"Change. Misery needs company. Maybe it's time to let go."