Purpose and meaning

I feel like I'm drifting from my friends, not just socially - time spent meeting up and so on - but mentally and ideal-istically as well. They've begun smoking, spending countless late nights out drinking and shooting pool... inherently there's nothing wrong with these activities if I fudge them a bit, but they seem - to me anyway - to be symptomatic of a larger and more serious problem - a loss of purpose and meaning in their lives.

Similarly, my eca seems to be falling apart at the seams. I don't understand why and how the madness came about... but as the quarrel rages, the people who have always been the main focus of the program - my kids - suffer. Then again, that's at the core of the debate in the first place - should they even be our main focus in the first place?

I can't believe anyone could even question that!