Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit.
Madness string 3227
I'm not okay. People keep asking me how I am, standard greeting and all, but rather than lie I just tell them they don't want to know, or stop asking that. I haven't been okay for months, perhaps years.
I know I did exactly what everyone told me I must absolutely not do, but in my defense, I thought I could just get away with doing it anyway.