There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.
I'm still getting used to changing earrings - It still feels really weird to be pushing bits of metal through holes in my earlobes that weren't there a few weeks back, and actually seeing and feeling the holes in my lobes is still a bit freaky.
I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result.