Clearing Up a Couple Questions

Every now and then you find a quote that clears everything up. Answers all questions about who we are, what we are doing here, and that sort of thing.

Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation which accounts for it that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but consists in the fact that the relation relates to its own self. Man is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity, in short it is a synthesis. A synthesis is a relation between two factors. So regarded, man is not yet a self. 

- A Sickness Unto Death, Soren Kierkegaard

Yup. That cleared it right up.