Thirteenth Proof of my existence: On Unamuno and the tragic sense of life

In my mind, the tragic sense of life boils down to the appreciation of the conflict between the desire to act and the actuality of inaction; the goal is eternal happiness, through virtue and personal ethics, and the path there is the belief that it is attainable in its own right, rather than through prescribed dogma.

That is to say, being a lucid, conscious human being is to feel that internal dissonance of knowing that one needs to act, of the thoughts regarding possible action, and the inaction before or after the act itself; in following our personal beliefs and acting upon them rather than getting lost within our thoughts on them, we strive as individuals to attain our eternal happiness- but for it to be "real", in a sense, we have to act upon what our core beliefs are, rather than the core tenets of dogmatic faith, so that our view of eternal happiness is integrally our own.

To make a comparison, looking at the Myth of Sisyphus, in order for him to be happy, he must push the rock of his own belief that this is the proper course of action.

Aside from that, I feel that Unamuno was essentially bringing light to a psychological cognitive bias- the confirmation bias, which is a tendency of people to favor information that confirms their beliefs or hypotheses. However, I feel he is discussing it in an individual sense, in so far as when we act on thought rather than belief, we give reason to our action after the fact, giving us reason to belief a certain way. So personally, I feel that he's arguing that for us to really seize the Kierkegaardian ideal, we have to essentially overcome this bias. Anyways, those are my thoughts on it, at the very least.