context-2
Original: context-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1
Child (a young person with curly blond hair): Dad, how do you stop being jealous of other people?
Panel 2
Dad (a man with dark hair and glasses, holding a coffee mug): The key is to always do what is true to you. Find your highest ideal and pursue it.
Panel 3
Dad: Then, when other people have more success, you can recast your failure as a heroic struggle for purity or beauty or whatever.
Panel 4
(The two stand together on a hillside at night, the dad still holding his mug; no dialogue.)
Panel 5
Child: How much of your life is spent recontextualizing your shortcomings?
Panel 6
Dad: Oh, just the second half.
Child (a young person with curly blond hair): Dad, how do you stop being jealous of other people?
Panel 2
Dad (a man with dark hair and glasses, holding a coffee mug): The key is to always do what is true to you. Find your highest ideal and pursue it.
Panel 3
Dad: Then, when other people have more success, you can recast your failure as a heroic struggle for purity or beauty or whatever.
Panel 4
(The two stand together on a hillside at night, the dad still holding his mug; no dialogue.)
Panel 5
Child: How much of your life is spent recontextualizing your shortcomings?
Panel 6
Dad: Oh, just the second half.
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. A young blond child asks their dad, who has dark hair, glasses, and holds a coffee mug, "Dad, how do you stop being jealous of other people?" The dad answers, "The key is to always do what is true to you. Find your highest ideal and pursue it." He continues, "Then, when other people have more success, you can recast your failure as a heroic struggle for purity or beauty or whatever." The two stand together on a dark grassy hillside under a starry night sky. The child asks, "How much of your life is spent recontextualizing your shortcomings?" The dad replies, "Oh, just the second half." There is no votey for this comic.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.