We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that.
I could care less about sitting around and practicing the guitar for hours a day and trying to be the best guitar player on the planet.
There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.