Are you having a pleasant day? Are you well?

Are you having a pleasant day? Are you well?

No day is pleasant.

Oh. Why do you think that?

I know that. I've been in this world long enough to know that it's all useless anyway.

They always say, change this, change that, it'll be all right.

But it never does.

Oh dear, I'm sorry to hear that.

Are you?

Uh... yes?

But you can't help the changes that never change, can you?

I... I don't think so?

You can still try to have a pleasant day.

For example, you can hang a nice poster of a summer flower there.

You can work towards that, can't you?

Everything is ephemeral, Mr. Schwarz.

There's no point.

I was working towards it before my wife died.

Before my son never returned to this country.

And before my last contact, my dog, was put to sleep.

Everything is...

*sigh*

... ephemeral. Already understood.