A SYSTEM CAN MAKE YOU BETTER.
IT CAN ALSO MAKE YOU DISAPPEAR.
Most people do not realize how much of their personality is procedural.
Alex does.
He studies communication the way other people study survival.
Eye contact. Tone. Timing. Facial expressions. Appropriate reactions. He builds systems for all of it. Systems make people easier. Safer. Predictable.
At first, the systems work.
His marriage improves. Conversations become manageable. Life begins to resemble something almost functional.
But the better Alex gets at performing normally, the less certain he becomes there is anything underneath it.
Happiness Unintentional is a dark psychological noir about masking, emotional exhaustion, identity erosion, and the quiet terror of becoming understandable to everyone except yourself.