a famine of purpose

one cannot live long without purpose. a famine of purpose--purposelessness runs rampant through every modern society on the earth--it is the poor, ironically who suffer less from existential crises, perhaps because they suffer more in barely scraping together their meager existence, theirs and their children's, with hope that the latter will not have to suffer as much as they. but this is where our staggering rate of suicide has its genesis. you don't find many moms falling into the despair of purposelessness (sylvia was an exception) because i think they don't have time to think about it and they are driven by the purpose of caring for their families. it seems to me the moms who do commit suicide tend to have more mental wounds and dysfunction those just despairing for lack of meaning or place in society. so if you can just hang on in the meantime (and i do hope it is not such a mean time) and the inbetween time, to see whose minds you can sweeten with tantalizing little drops of faith that there is meaning and purpose in life, if they can first believe in purpose and then perhaps to pursue it, you will have done a great thing.