The temporal self's drive towards achieving being for itself is expressed through meaning, is a will to exist through meaning. Meaning is the accessibility of being. Such meaning is described as moving fluidly between four basic modes or goals: 1. the value of the self, its intrinsic goodness or worth which must be affirmed or reflected through life, 2. closure or  the resolution of unknowns, the completion of knowledge or of power, 3. participation, the being in full standing as a member of some greater entity, or finally 4. a personal immortality project, the having initiated or accomplished some kind of lasting secular monument. All of this explains a lot, especially when you add the mutual incommensurability of the different modes and the likelihood of imagining, whatever the circumstances, that others must be after the same stakes as yourself; and also the odd ways in which they each must look when viewed from the perspective of one of the others. Nevertheless the more these strategies are seen the more absurd they look, the more obvious it is that they can never achieve what they set out to do, unless it is to keep the dance going. They are perhaps the original 'memes'.