Finished reading When Memory Speaks by Jill Ker Conway. She has many interesting insights. Am going to quote a bit here because I love how she she depicts our life as a plot made up of many elements which we control, and some that we choose not to.When Memory Speaks: Exploring the Art of Autobiography

"We travel through life guided by an inner life plot--part the creation of family, part the internaliztion of broader social norms, part the function of our imagination and our own capacity for insight into ourselves,part from our groping to understand the universe in which the planet we inhabit is a speck."