How do i ground myself back into reality?

>a beautiful girl's smile is sometimes scary don't you think?
What did she mean by this

no
i would gladly be willing to put up with the mundane shit and suffering of life (and have already done so for like 20 years) but to keep this up there needs to be some kind of purpose.
like, a man who has a loyal wife and kids is willing to slave away in the coal mines for 12 hours a day, no problem. because it provides for his family.
but a man who has nobody and is alone? why on earth would he waste his life in the mines, only to come home to an empty apartment full of loneliness?

the appeal of anime escapism isn't that it portrays all of the ups and none of the downs. it's that it has any ups at all in the first place, which most of us completely lack in our real lives.