Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.

People use people according to their own needs. Or don't use them. When a primary need is one of safety.

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.