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me contemplatively stretched out on the therapist’s divan: anyway I think the reason I’m so obsessed with looking at a big epic story from the pov of a humble side character who doesn’t want to get involved in the main plot is because growing up the only characters in stories who were like me were usually background people in other people’s – people who got to be protagonist’s – life, and instead of making me want to be another traditional main character it made me interested in the dignity and complexity of having to navigate how to live your life and find happiness in a narrative that tells you you’re irrelevant. there is worth in journeys that are not the hero’s. not everyone needs to save the world; sometimes saving yourself is enough.

the poor ikea employee who has tried to get me to leave the furniture department for half an hour now: I um – okay, uh-huh