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lil  ·  3442 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Do You See Your Life as a Story?

Thanks for your comments.

    if you're constantly trying to arrange your existence to please some external structure you are literally wasting your life.
I agree with this 100%. I do NOT suggest contriving a story out of your life while you are adventuring. That would be ridiculous.
    Life is a journey.
Afterwards, though, a person might want to look back and see a narrative in that journey. Doing that might help them see that their choices, issues, and struggles may also have been an allegorical journey from fragmentation to integration (and perhaps to fragmentation again).

Also in light of your comment, I changed a line to make the idea clearer.