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“Living in the future creates the illusion that we are managing our life and steels us against personal failure. We keep busy. Staying occupied is a socially sanctioned way of remaining distant from our pain. How often do we hear that someone who has just lost a dear one is ‘doing a good job at keeping busy’? If we stop, we run the risk of plunging into the unbearable feeling that we are alone & worthless.”