If you're enjoying yourself and it makes you happy, then it's not meaningless.

[Anders, you are no fun sometimes.]

[...Also, ouch. Should Hawke take that to mean Anders isn't interested? They're talking in extremely vague terms here, but that sure is what it sounded like...]

[This is where he retreats into sarcasm because he doesn't want to deal with that thought. At all.]

I thought you were worried about inflating my ego?