Which I mean less as a statement of fact than of my own subjective feeling. For I know that everyone has a purpose, regardless of whether they seem, by societal standards (or even by standards they have internalized, and have learned to apply to themselves), to contribute the sort of work that can be described as ‘useful,’ or that can be measured by a currency, and traded on the strength of its valuation, and thus be deemed purposeful by those who would take upon themselves the task of adjudicating it.