Comic #6207: context-2

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Panel 1: Child: "Dad, how do you stop being jealous of other people?"

Panel 2: Adult: "The key is to always do what is true to you. Find your highest ideal and pursue it."

Panel 3: Adult: "Then, when other people have more success, you can recast your failure as a heroic struggle for purity or beauty or whatever."

Panel 4: Child: "How much of your life is spent recontextualizing your shortcomings?"

Panel 5: Adult: "Oh, just the second half."