“A person might reasonably inquire if it is worthwhile to engage in an exhaustive narrative self-examination in order to instigate transformation of the self. Is it a sound allocation of personal resources to take myself to task on paper? Without structured change, I will repeat past mistakes, which is the ultimate definition of insanity. Before unwittingly commencing a blinkered journey through life, I need to reevaluate my operating schema that led me to the brink of self-destruction. I must initiate a reassessment of my philosophy for living by first understanding how my flawed assumptions regarding how to achieve a worthy life misled me. Although there are many methods to engineering a purposeful restructuring of a person’s ethical system, I elected to use writing as a method to incite a transformative learning experience. A person cannot write in a curative manner until one endures living an examined life.”