Watch this video first. Watched it?! Well, now that "empty thing deep inside you", the fact that you know it's all for nothing and we are alone, that thing, yes, that! Just yesterday I was talking to a friend who believed another friend of ours has accepted to live like a depressed person while she can be someone very fun. He thought all she needs are some friends to cheer her up and some activity partners to help her overcome her enormous inertia... I was trying to tell him after all it's a lifestyle and I don't think it fundamentally differs from our lifestyles. One feels the absurdity of life deep inside and becomes C.K. Louis while one becomes, I don't know, Kafka or Camus for example. I ended saying "Listen, I think it's okay if people are aware of it and frankly I don't want to start a philosophical discussion that I don't really think there's such a thing as free will or if it exists it's probably very limited* so as a result I've a hard time accepting people have a choice to be someone different from what they already are or live in a way different from what they already do". We both laughed and agreed it wasn't really fun(!) to get into that discussion. 

Anyways for me the reality of life is tremendously sad, as Louis puts it, and I don't think any strategy you happen to "choose" to deal with it, is basically in any significant way, very different from any other strategy. You can just laugh in life's face and try to enjoy the most you can cause it's after all the only damn thing you have while you can just mourn your whole damn life cause it is damn sad and I guess if there's one legitimate justifiable subject which deserves grief it's gonna be the absurdity of life, its very reality.

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*/ Watch this other video as well and in case you don't know this amazing neuroscientist, Robert Sapolsky, just watch whatever talks, lectures, interviews, etc he has on youtube!