Pop culture made chaos feel like passion and distance feel like depth.
As Roy Baumeister said, “Men adapt to the standards women reward.”
Keep chasing the unavailable, and you normalise dysfunction.
Real love is mutual, calm, and clear.
“Stop taking life so seriously.
No one is getting out of this game alive.”
Or like Seneca says,
“What in need there is to weep about some parts of your life, when all of it calls for tears?”