Is the only remaining option to descend into a passive state of nihilism? No! Such a response is inappropriate and will only lead to a wasted life!

Mankind would not find this a gift. They would rather I take something from them and bear it with them - that will please them best; but it would not be pleasing to me! I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses. So I will go to the people.