Defining Purpose

       The struggle of existence plays out both in the physical antagonisms of life and in finding reasons to exist.  From the beginning of one’s life, meaning of one’s existence is determined on culture & family.  Through the years, in-group struggles and unanswered - or unsatisfactory - questions about the world might induce one to go out into the “unknown” world on a quest in an effort to satisfy such curiosities (that is, if they are free enough to take on such a task).  But, what if, in this quest, they discover that so much of what they were taught was based off of much fabrication, mental manipulation, or paranoia; and, at this juncture, choose to cast off those past paradigms?      This person is left in fragments.  How can he know what is real save for the skin on his bones and the earth beneath his feet?  How can he trust anybody without reading into them some sort of manipulative agenda?  Better to be stoic and not let anybody too close.  Better not to show anybody his