Yes, in highschool I was always reading everything I could get my hands on and getting caught in the existential spiral, and last year I talked to this one other kid who I used to talk to because we were interested in the same things. We were talking about death and he was saying how he wants to learn everything he can in life and I told him I don’t because the more you learn the harder it is to keep yourself from going into a downward spiral and trying to cope with where your mind has decided to go with all that unnecessary information. He said something about sheep I think and then stopped talking to me a few days later when I defended someone in a newsie cap who he thought looked dumb