Throughout the play, Estragon and Vladimir remain stupidly cheerful and seek to distract themselves in meaningless activities. By doing this, they become more comical, which gives the play its funny component. “The positive attitude of the two tramps therefore amounts to a double negation: their inability to recognize the absurdity of their position” (Roerich, 2013, p.67). Estragon and Vladimir try to distract themselves from the endless wait by arguing over common issues, arguing with Lucky and Pozzo (again regarding common issues), sleeping, and even contemplating suicide. All these actions and behaviors are carried out with the aim of remaining unconscious of the fact that they are waiting for an indistinct figure, in part, of their personal invention, which will never come. In this situation, they do not want to understand that their life has no meaning. These actions and behaviors represent meaningless distractions to humanity. Basically, humans have nothing to do, but are just distracting themselves from their condition. “… whereas, in the case of Vladimir and Estragon, it is precisely the incessant attempt to pass time that is so characteristic and which reflects the specific misery and absurdity of their lives” (Manley, 2013, p. 51), Estragon and Vladimir's efforts at distraction are efforts to simply pass time, which they intend to bring closer to the time in which Godot