What helps me realize that's absurd is fiction. Fiction is great because it's all stories about people and their meaningfulness, so if these guys who also wrestle with waste of space kind of issues end up having meaning, then so can you and me.

I get fiction isn't real life, but that's not the point. Fiction is a reflection of how people really are. That's why literature is art. Books remind us that we only see a small part of our own story at any given time and that we are our harshest critics.

Read a book.