Read the extract given below and answer the question that follows: What I want should not be confused with total inactivity Life is what it is about; I want no truck with death, If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving – and for once could do nothing Perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves and of threatening ourselves with death. Select the option that aptly describes the tone of the poet in the expression: "If we were not so single minded'.