I'll just add some supporting material from one of my favorite authors, Leo Tolstoy. > Just do something that helps others, take some responsibility in the rea

I'll just add some supporting material from one of my favorite authors, Leo Tolstoy. > Just do something that helps others, take some responsibility in the real world, even if it's small but at least you're doing something real This reminds me of a line in one of his stories (paraphrasing) : "The surest path to happiness is service of others." It's also the final lesson of his autobiographical short story, Father Sergius, and comes up in the story Two Old Men where it's juxtaposed with a ritualistic view of religion lacking an ethos of service. > worst case you're still miserable but at least you've done something meaningful. You won't be miserable, although you will likely appear that way to the eyes of worldly people. That's the central theme of Tolstoy's exquisite and (very) short story, Alyosha the Pot.