Making Sense of the Direction of Our Lives

Our lives are a constant journey of constructing stories about the direction we are headed in and making sense of our experiences. We often believe that our current life is better because we worked hard to create it, compared to our past selves. The example of Clive Wearing, a memory patient with amnesia, highlights how humans constantly feel like they are waking up for the first time, trying to figure things out and believing that they have finally achieved clarity, only to repeat the pattern in the future.