Sometimes the only way a person can learn something is for them to find out for themselves.
It sucks playing preacher or a wannabe God (ahem!)....it sucks being a Doctor too, they take all your money and then they tell ya "you are gonna die!" and we knew that anywho (and "blah, blah if you don't do this, this will happen and cause your decline...")
Lonliness kills me sometimes, as I'm often alone. I've got plenty to share, just no one to share it with...yet.
As human beings we are always on the search for something. I suppose it's some kind of fix (could be the booze, it could be god, or whatever (sailing, reading, sex, boxing, crack, our children, writing, cooking etc.)...) to help us get through to an end we know nothing about.
Just remember, as I try to as often as I can, it's not the beginning of the story or the end that mean the lot, it's the chapters we must write inbetween that are the most important to us and telling. Just be honest.
It's all a can of magic.