[But everyone has a coping strategy, that much is normal. Even the average, the ones who have always been average, who can never hope for more still find the mundanity of their daily lives overwhelming. Chase meets them in the clinic. They take overdoses (or drink) or smash plates (or drink) or hit their spouses because it feels like the only way to win an argument. Or they drink. But Chase has never been quite average (but he's never been quite enough) and it's people like him, like Carla used to be, the successful, talented, aspirational ones who break apart most spectacularly. He has his own theories. For the majority of people success is a void filler. Or its what happens when 'normal' isn't a choice.
Chase moves to stand behind her chair.]
Now you can take the jacket off.
[He'll put it to one side for her.]
If I were to suggest a pharmacological option, would you say no immediately, or bitch at me first?
too early;
[But everyone has a coping strategy, that much is normal. Even the average, the ones who have always been average, who can never hope for more still find the mundanity of their daily lives overwhelming. Chase meets them in the clinic. They take overdoses (or drink) or smash plates (or drink) or hit their spouses because it feels like the only way to win an argument. Or they drink. But Chase has never been quite average (but he's never been quite enough) and it's people like him, like Carla used to be, the successful, talented, aspirational ones who break apart most spectacularly. He has his own theories. For the majority of people success is a void filler. Or its what happens when 'normal' isn't a choice.
Chase moves to stand behind her chair.]
Now you can take the jacket off.
[He'll put it to one side for her.]
If I were to suggest a pharmacological option, would you say no immediately, or bitch at me first?