"Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from
sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn't have to be a
romantic walk in the park, spring at its most
spectacular moment, flowers and smells and
outstanding poetical imagery smoothly
transferring you into another world. It doesn't
have to be a walk during which you'll have
multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no
other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be
afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find
meaning or don't find meaning but "steal" some
time and give it freely and exclusively to your
own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That
doesn't make you antisocial or cause you to reject
the rest of the world. But you need to breathe.
And you need to be.
Albert Camus, from "Notebooks, 1951-1959"