Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line banishment from all the living and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.
I don't know why it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it since it's fundamentally emotional.