The failure mechanism is self-perpetuating, unless we step in and break the vicious cycle. Emptiness, when once experienced, can become a “way” of avoiding effort, work, and responsibility. It becomes an excuse, or a justification for non-creative living. If all is vanity, if there is no new thing under the sun, if there is no joy to be found anyway—why bother? Why try? If life is just a treadmill—if we work 8 hours a day so we can afford a house to sleep in, so we can sleep 8 hours to become rested for another day’s work—why get excited about it? All these intellectual “reasons” vanish,
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