Another way of describing this is to say that we can begin to tell the story of our lives, starting from some initially very preliminary idea of what a good life for us might be. But, over time, we may well become clearer on what projects and purposes we wish to pursue to become, in a phrase that is rather overused nowadays, what we were ‘always meant to be’. It is in that sense that we can describe our lives as being on a narrative quest.
