All individuals—whether they are considered good or evil, selfish or altruistic, wise or ignorant—share at least one common aspiration: to seek meaning and purpose to their existence. The person with the simplest of lives will have sought some kind of meaning for their continued presence in this reality. The person with the most convoluted of philosophies will be just the same. Even those who deem that existence has no purpose, seek purpose: The very postulation that life is meaningless implies that these individuals have had to reach such a conclusion by purposeful and directed seeking. The denial of purpose is purpose in itself; the refutation of meaning is meaning in itself. Thus, all individuals are bonded together insofar as they possess Will to search for meaning and purpose. What the end of such a pursuit or what the derivation of moulding together life experiences into a philosophy comprise are irrelevant. Only worth consideration here is that there is Will for them. This then becomes the first principal of being: to attribute meaning to existence.
M.M.
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