Living a life perpetually searching for happiness is a kind of dead life - a life lived backwards as if you possess some way to know everything important in advance. This places you at the centre of a dull story, a burden of walking a path already mapped out. A full life is an improvisation, made up as you go along - all the time knowing that whatever unfolds is another story you are telling yourself on the way to eternity.

The real meaning or possibility to know yourself is nothing more than constantly telling the story of your life in ever more imaginative and unexpected ways. You come to view your life in the light of these new stories and the process of change takes place naturally. Your life is shaped by a 'charged' fiction instead of a dead fiction.