Personally, growing up as a kid, I had a really big question about my purpose. I wanted to know one thing or several things, but one of them was why I had to die. And when I was in kindergarten, President Kennedy got assassinated. And later on, of course, there were of course there were a series of assassinations at that time. It was a tumultuous time around the Vietnam War, and later on, one of my friends from high school had gone hiking with another friend and had wandered off in the wilderness and was never found again. There were various stimuli during my youth that augmented my hyper sense of the tenuous nature of life. And I was always thinking, there must be something higher, some other purpose. Besides just following the status quo. So that's when I started to inquire, and I found that because of my sincere inquiry, like, what's the purpose of life? What's my purpose, I was taken on a quest. I felt as if I was being guided. There were there was serendipity, serendipitous events, one after another that, looking back, I thought, Oh, I was being led along because of my inquiry to find my purpose more and more,

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