"until I found myself in situations where direction evaporated." This is the important part. Most people simply work themselves to death and never find the tim

"until I found myself in situations where direction evaporated." This is the important part. Most people simply work themselves to death and never find the time to ask these kinds of questions. Or, they did ask themselves these questions at one point and realized working themselves to death was a more pleasant route than struggling with such existential problems.