From a few hundred thousand people to a few hundred. It was certainly a change. I've managed to keep the memory of it just fine, but for all the advantages of this place, I'd much rather be there than here.

Perhaps. But time takes all memories eventually. It's just what we do about it that decides how quickly or slowly it happens.

You don't have one, yourself?

So what sort of thing would you like to remember forever?

Is your life really so terrible?

So it's not so much your life being terrible as it is that you're a terribly apathetic person.

Doesn't that feel empty?

Do you want to be happy?

[ Said without judgment. Not everyone does. ]

Could want happiness? Or could be happy?

Only a maybe? Maybe you don't know yourself as well as you should before you can say a thing like that.

But you're not someone else. You're you. How would you expect to understand anyone else if you don't even have a point of comparison?

Do you try?