An existential crisis is not a temporary condition experienced by only a few or a neurosis to be somehow avoided or cured. The truth is we are all in crisis and remain so at least until death. Life itself constitutes an existential crisis, whether or not we recognize it as such. For, at least from birth we are confronted with a world we do not fully understand, with a self we do not fully know, and we are forced to choose – to do something, to behave somehow, to use what precious little time we have in the pursuit of something . . . and to live with the consequences of our actions.

The question is not whether we will experience this crisis, but – finding ourselves already in it – how we will respond.