The Importance of Purposelessness

There's such a primordial drive toward becoming your true self that being purposeless drives people to suicide sometimes. One thing more than anything else drives them and that is I have no sense of purpose. And so purposelessness does not sound like an affliction, but it is like a knife in your guts if it goes far enough. Anything on purpose becomes the fulfillment and the... It's what you were trading for the supposed safety of the institution. "It can look mad to the culture, but it's not madness. It's integrity"