Comic #5921: blue

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Panel 1: Character 1: "I’m feeling blue." Character 2: "Don’t despair! I’m the happiness fairy."

Panel 2: Character 2: "I’m here to remind you that as long as you’re relatively happy later in life you’ll consider this period to have been 'the good old days!'" Character 1: "But I’m objectively sad."

Panel 3: Character 2: "Doesn’t matter! You don’t relive the past! You can tag it with whatever emotional character you like!" Character 1: "Look back about 1/3 of your current lifespan. Were you happy then?"

Panel 4: Character 1: "I think so."

Panel 5: Character 2: "Wrong, ditz! You’ve remembered all the sad stuff as interesting and the anger as righteous struggle!"

Panel 6: Character 2: "You’ll do the same for now! All this will be forgotten, even by you."

Panel 7: Character 1: "I find that strangely encouraging." Character 2: "Aren’t you lucky humans are so broken!"

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