Greetings back atcha. I'm inclined to say that "Seekers of Perl Wisdom" at PerlMonks isn't the right place for your particular question, because the "question" is just rhetorical (or flame bait? or self pity? whatever it is, it's ineffective as a request for help).

Now, suppose instead that you were to quote a particular passage from some perl documentation -- maybe even say what you were hoping to accomplish with perl when you decided to look this up and read it -- and then ask what the passage really means. For that sort of question, this is the right place.

Do you have a question of that sort?