He could have endured his situation a little better, perhaps, if he had realized that the emptiness he was experiencing was the natural sequel to an inner ending and that the ending and the emptiness were simply the first two phases of a process that would (unless it was somehow aborted) provide him with a new sense of who he was and where he was going. He might have felt a little less alone if he had realized how common his experience was. And he could have faced the future more confidently if he had used some tools with which to clear a pathway through the wilderness.
