When one follows the recommendation of Ortega y Gasset, Viktor Frankl and Louis Lavelle, who, from different perspectives, emphasize the importance of seeking to integrate individual circumstances into the plane of existence, the act certainly acquires an extraordinary solidity and life becomes more serious. But there is an unavoidable problem here: sometimes the circumstance is so miserable and depressing that its assimilation is dangerous. That is to say: he who wants to look at and understand raw reality, if taken by this sense of responsibility towards the circumstance, can never do so as a detached and impartial observer. What he calls to himself is what he suffers, what he seeks to integrate is what hinders, pressures and depresses him. What he does is the opposite of the rational path of detachment, and this task is never undertaken without leaving deep marks on the character. The result may not be good…