I’ve come to understand that a person must always stay occupied, otherwise sorrow will take over. A human being needs to work constantly, to have responsibilities, and to fall into bed exhausted and half-asleep. If someone has even the slightest capacity for thinking too much or understanding too deeply, they won’t be able to endure the pain of this world unless they drown themselves, almost to the point of suffocation, in work and busyness, so much so that they can no longer focus, care, or think about anything else.