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Thanks for your appreciation, Panicki :) It sure warmed my heart ^ ^

It is only natural for a large part of fiction to include its share of dramatic tension, so as to keep up the intensity and dynamic of the story, but I believe there should also be alternate genres focused on the exploration of this greater happiness we all long for, and that our heartless reality denies us.

Alas, while this escapist aspiration is equally natural, somehow people like you and I are apparently too rare to constitute a sufficient market for this different kind of story, which I honestly find quite puzzling. There are certainly a large number of happy shows but they are almost invariably aimed at children, as if people no longer dreamt of a happier world upon growing up, which is obviously not true.

It is like society implicitly refuses us the right to dream after reaching a certain age, we are supposed to "man up" and "deal with it", forcing us to repress this "immature" side of us and just play tough guy, as if we somehow outgrew it and were at peace with the way the world works, which here again is just a blatant denial of our inner reality.

I believe this society-induced emotional repression is the true reason behind the surprising lack of “happy stories for grown-ups” in fiction, which quite unfortunate on multiple levels. Not only does it deprive us of a much welcome relief from the unpleasantness of our daily lives, but it also prevents us from imagining ways for the world to actually become a better place (if only a little in some way), creating a large scale locked-up mentality according to which it simply *cannot* be any better than it currently is.

It’s the rejection of all this that led me to create Lawrence, and boy am I happy I did it. Just thinking about him is enough to brighten my day ^ ^