A lot of the "Seekers" I encountered along the way had suffered all manners of difficulties in their lives and were ultimately out there looking for some indication that there was an easier way to handle life. That somehow, their lives had been so hard because they were doing it wrong and if they could just find the right "method," somehow life would get easier.

Of course, it doesn't. Life is simply hard... it's what you choose to do about that hardness and how you choose to view and approach it that's changeable.

Which is not to say that different people don't have different "hardship thresholds," what drives one over the edge is easy-peasy to another.

I was never that much into "fixing myself" as into finding tools I thought might help me fix what I perceived to be a profoundly "broken" world. That was, of course, doomed as well...