Well, I think this is an awesome response. Did you really use to cry for us all, by the way? Anyway, yeah, it’s preposterous, absurd: we seek something of lasting worth, while seeing at the same time that it’s most probably nowhere to be found. Not sure I agree with K-muss though about “rebelling” against this.
My counter-response is: Everything was not fine before it all began or before you woke up. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t good, either. And now it’s bad, but it’s good, too. You were woken up because you might as well be awake. Countless aren’t, and might as well not be.
In other words: Everything was fine, but now it’s not just not fine, but also more than fine. There are (so to say) the Passions—of St John, St Matthew, etc. I mean music. “By virtue of music, the passions enjoy themselves.” ‘Without music, life would be an errour.’