You’ve lived much of your life within a story that was already written for you — even if you didn’t always recognize it as a story. There were milestones you pursued, benchmarks you achieved, paths laid out by tradition, expectation, or success itself. Graduation. Promotion. Accolades. Milestones that whisper, You’re on track. They don’t answer the deepest questions, but they structure your life so convincingly that you barely notice the scaffolding supporting it. Then the sc