Viewing your life as a narrative....
....is something I do, yet think it is a very irresponsible thing. Do you do it though?
What I mean is this: you take the documented and fictionalized (memories are largely fictionalized reconstructions of the past) information that your memories and what-not has compiled, and you make a story out of it. Then, due to human frailties or limitations, you assign some sort of literary device or plot device to string the events together. Maybe if I told you mine it would make sense...then again..
I could string my life along as the struggles of a stupid kid who wasn't taught much and was led astray. I think that's a very apt summary of the point I want to bring up. My philosophical and outlook change when I was 24 years old or whatever is a good changing point. My rejection of organized religion would be another.
Depending on your age, this may be almost a mandatory way to make sense out of some x number of years of memories. Or you can reject it all. As I said, it is pretty irresponsible to just ignore large portions of your immediate motivations for the expressed purpose of an objective narrative's coherency. For example my rejection of religion wasn't motivated by seeking the truth, but mostly because I was too lazy to go to church. It wasn't until much later that I formally rejected the God hypothesis, drawing upon arguments like 'I don't see evidence' and 'the evidence people provide me aren't sufficient': both ideas being thoughts that didn't even occur to me at 17 of age.
On the other hand, not knowing my immediate motivations at various points in my life, how else am I supposed to make sense of my entire life? What do you do (or what else can you do), if you don't write your story as a silly movie screenplay?
