Broader purpose?

Every once in awhile, I can't help thinking about broader purpose. Leah & I had a chat about that tonight. It seems like so many people never find what their higher purpose is - they settle into the daily routine and monotony as if that were their destiny. To lead a life devoid of something more. It's easy to live an ordinary life - to never find a way to distinguish oneself and to struggle with the feeling like something is missing. And I don't mean this from a religious standpoint - that would be too easy. I find it an intellectual pursuit. Something that so many forget. The philosophers had it, the great minds of the world - the scientists, the politicians that sought greatness in the masses, the seekers and explorers. Those people that burned to live, to seek and to find. I am afraid sometimes of losing my need to seek and to find. Of sinking deeper into the sameness, the comfort of what I know. However I wonder if it's like the question of being crazy - if you can consciously think that you are crazy, are you really then crazy? As in, crazy people don't know they are crazy. If you resolve to always look, to learn, to quest - will you then do so?