What would happen if you were marooned on an island with only Stone Age humans for a year, like Gulliver in Gulliver's Travels?
There are still some people who would find your scenario a most idyllic situation--to be left alone on a deserted island without any contact with the outside, modern world. If, indeed, a man was to be a castaway for only one year (with the possibility or certainty of being rescued after that time), it could become a great learning experience, as it was for Gulliver. If the setting was more similar to Cast Away, with limited resources aside from what could be found in the sea, survival would be a much greater challenge. A more-perfect existence would be that of the shipwrecked survivors of Swiss Family Robinson , who managed to make their island refuge a true paradise; when it came time to be rescued, they realized that they had already found a perfect home. In any of the three cases, survival would be the primary focus, battling the...
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elements and making do with the natural resources that were available. The time spent there would certainly provide plenty of time for reflection, and a man might be able to better recognize his true place on the planet while devoid of the technological distractions of the modern world. Above all, the time spent being castawayed would allow a man to make certain decisions about how he will live out the rest of his life once he is returned to civilization.