Here's an excerpt from Robert Solomon's Existentialism (1974) book. He was one of my Philosophy professors at UT-Austin before he passed away:<p>"What does one do? 'Be yourself!' An empty script; myself sounds like a mere word that points at 'me' along with the camera. One wants to 'let things happen,' but in self-conscious reflection nothing ever 'just happens.' One seizes a plan (one chooses a self)"