Probably one of the worst ways you could start your adulthood is by completely withdrawing from your education, career, and social life to go run around a lobotomization camp and get degraded by emotionally stunted grown men for 2 years
The kindest thing literature does is remind you that your peculiar little feelings have always existed. Someone, in some century, was equally confused by love, bored by society, tired of performing, and hungry for meaning.