Pay No Attention To It: Solution to a Problem, or Issue Unto Itself?

In the book The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse, Uncle Khosrove repeatedly responds to problems by shouting, “It is no harm, pay no attention to it!” regardless of what has been said or what may be the result of his words. This is what he says to the threat of his house burning down, a horse going missing, and all other things he encounters in his daily life. Is this a reasonable way to deal with the unhappy situations we face in life, or does it merely push the problem away from us for the moment, so that we are forced to instead cope with it after its effects have been exacerbated?
Khosrove is forced to deal with much hardship in life, as all are. He is pushed from his homeland into a strange country, and is left poor and starving in a little island of Armenian culture surrounded by a vast ocean of Americanized settlements. What can he do but push aside his feelings? Sometimes, when things are really difficult, the only thing that can be done is pay no attention to the pain. If one lets negative emotions well up inside, it can eat away at all chances of happiness. To worry about the future or present is, in some cases, futile and deeply harmful. Khosrove manages not to let his inevitable fears about property, family, and emotional instability hurt him, and instead reassures himself that “it is no harm.” What will come, will come, and he will have to meet it when it does.
On the other hand, if you constantly put off what you must eventually face, things will never get done. If life is spent “paying no attention,” solutions may be missed, happinesses lost, and a domino effect of hardships start from ignoring one important misfortune. When Khosrove tells his frantic son that the fire razing his house to the ground is no harm, he is blatantly lying, and endangering his family, his possessions, and possibly the whole community. To put everything he loves at such risk is foolish, and cannot possibly be condoned. If I never studied for a math test, or paid any attention to it, I would fail all the quizzes, never turn in any homework, do extremely poorly on the exam, and, most importantly, never learn anything.
To ignore some issues is the only way that some things can be dealt with- to focus continually on the future is nearly as bad as always reminiscing on the past, and is equally useless and a total waste of time. However, when a trouble is put aside, it still must eventually be faced, and it is often better to face an issue before it escalates into a full scale disaster than leave it, living your life in blissful ignorance, until finally it becomes so huge that you have no choice but to respond. Khosrove’s manner of putting aside absolutely everything that he faces that displeases him is one I do not support, merely because of how all encompassing its range is. If he were to use this phrase only when there was nothing to be done about the issue, it would merely be a way of coping with something that cannot be dealt with or solved by focusing on it. Instead, he includes things like a house fire in the list of acceptable scenarios it can be used as a response to, and therefore endangers both people and property in his refusal to act.