Maybe there is a way to learn to handle the aspect. Maybe there are ways to take the edge off without losing the whole persona.

But maybe not. But maybe it is worth it. Maybe there is a reason for feeling bad. People like to analyse Kafka as depressed and yadda yadda. But he was a highly intelligent Jewish guy Prague in times of Austria Hungary. The empire was about to crash and burn. Maybe he did sense upcoming doom. Maybe he just realized that he is pariah and all the ideologies and theologies are sorta bunk and it makes little sense to cling to them.