It's a long story

"Jordan, I am trying to get out of the past and look forward! Can't you get that something might make me cry? A photo, a song, my old life, my country, my friends....Can't you get that I have become robotic and if I even get a hint of what might-have-been, I get angry?

"Oh, Peter," Jordan stared at his now empty plate.

"Do you really think you are unique?"