In all of these posts everyone is trying so hard to sound deep, esoteric, or clever. Many people are talking about the "emotional baggage" comprised of ties to friends and family and Pine Point. This is well and good and in many ways true, but so many of these things are temporary, formed almost out of necessity and quickly forgotten, replaced. Then some go so far as to say that they will carry no baggage, that they can immediately severe all ties with a their home for so many years. And while I would like to believe that they can do that as completely as they would, they would be goldfish because only goldfish have that sort of memory. What we carry with us out of Pine Point is purpose, friends and memories and suitcases all form the purpose with which we take that step into the knew beginning. Pine Point has given us our doom. It has shaped us into who we are and there will always be a little wringing in our ears that says to follow some path or love or dream or fetish or "obsessive compulsive disorder" (which it isn't!) and will never let us start completely knew again. All we are is a few thin strands of DNA that forms a dais for the reflection of all of our past experiences. Even a person with amnesia has a doom: to find what their past was. We are just so afraid to face the fact that our lives have just become predetermined that we must hide under anything we can write.