everyone here lives a life so very different than my own cozy existence surrounded by bits, tweets, tags, and other virtual, man-made ephemera. … Hollywood is fond of dramatizing events in people’s lives so that they’re full of blacks and whites. Real life never cares enough to be like this. The days just follow one another; some of them slightly better than the others. Sometimes we’re happier, sometimes we’re sadder, but typically we wake up swearing at the clock, count down the hours at work, and then plop ourselves in front of a television set, watching fictional adventures precisely because they are more interesting and dramatic than ours. People made out of TV pixels experience crazy adventures filled with spot-on dialogues, and their lives change drastically, usually as a result of specific, singular events.

‘Toy company, my ass’ by Marcin Wichary
http://www.aresluna.org/stories/toy-company-my-ass/