We can do nothing. We can with all that we attempt do nothing. We can with all of our success do nothing. This is the negative aspect of das Nichtige suffocating our lives in God's 'good' Creation. The nothingness haunts our lives with a freedom whose existence is lost from its definition in the divine freedom of the Creator and Redeemer of the world.
Man is free absolutely.
His freedom is his prison. He cannot escape from it. His very autonomy dwarfs his will with an impotence that leaves him speechless in the vast indifference of the world's immensity. He lives there knowing its infinity stretches out towards the forever unknown without regard for his desires, decisions, and imagination. All his paths lead him here.