You’re still over-thinking it. Luckily, the Atlantic’s Annie Lowrey has an even better follow-up article this week. You still needn’t read anything else.

I sure picked an odd week to read T.H. White’s The Once and Future King (1958). Well, who is to say what calls to us from the book pile and why? Here’s an evergreen passage we would all do well to keep in mind now and always:

“The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then—to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you."