Its okay, not to be okay

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When King Lear dies in act V, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He's written "he dies." That's all, nothing more. No fanfare, no metaphor, no brilliant final words. The culmination of the most influential work of dramatic literature is "he dies." It takes Shakespeare, a genius to come up with "he dies." And yet every time I read those words, I find myself overwhelmed with dysphoria. And I know it's only natural to be sad, but not because of the words "he dies." But because of the life we saw prior to the words...