On Life's Problems and Their Coexistence with Happiness

A man in anguish is 9 times out of 10 at war in some way with himself.  He may or may not realize that he is his own problem, but if he does, he will despair all the more, for how can a man rid himself of himself?  Usually he needs someone else's help to simply start living outside his own mind. To do this, to get out into the world and get his mind thinking about other things... this will seem to him like running away.  But what he's really doing is discovering that life will always have its problems, that problems are much more easily created than resolved, and that while its not right for him to completely ignore his own issues, he does not have to be dominated by them.