How to Distract Yourself Away From Being True to Yourself

Let's say you dedicate a huge portion of your life to swimming. You identify with this activity so much that you find yourself saying things like, man, if i got into an accident, for some reason i couldn't swim any more, what am i at that point? I'm a swimmer. That's who i am. Id i'd probably just kill myself. What kirkegard would say is it that emptiness that you're feeling right there that was there all along. It has echoes buddhism. And one other thing that might keep us in this state of despair longer than we might have to be: the transient nature of thingsha,. We have no control over.