Lots of people spend more time in fiction than in real life. Especially if your real life is relatively similar day to day, but you’re a voracious consumer of books, movies, etc. And this can give you a skewed sense that real life should – or even does – mirror the tropes used in narrative storytelling.
It doesn’t.
There aren’t convenient character archetypes. Things aren’t evenly spread. They don’t always wrap up neatly. There isn’t always an answer.
Real life is joyous. So is fiction. But one isn’t the other.
The Opportunity Machine 