Plot vs Filler: Your Life

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    When it comes to the long-running multi-faceted journey of your life, what parts of it do you think have been the most relevant so far? The necessary plot arcs, if you will? And what parts are simply filler episodes? If applicable, filler arcs.
     
    needed: school, college
    filler: 2013 till now
     
    I'm in the middle of a major plot arc right now after three years of mindless filler, actually. It's very easy for me to measure, because filler for me is literally me doing nothing day by day. The first half of 2017, at least, has been a plot arc in my life.

    But in terms of character development plot arcs, my entire life was filler up to December last year. Since that point it's been nothing but plot on that front. Which isn't a bad thing...at least, not yet, and not when I'm not...being me.

    I don't like thinking of any of the suffering I have gone through in the past - or am presently going through - as necessary. I prefer to think of it as filler, because my outlook on life is already sufficiently bleak without thinking that I have to suffer to get anywhere. That's a little too much even for me.
     
    There is probably like 1 month (in total) out of each year that is plot and the rest are filler. Right now I'm in the middle of filler.
     
    Filler: 4th to 6th year of secondary school. Except for a few significant events, most of this was waiting until I could start university.

    Plot: 2nd/3rd year of secondary, both years of uni so far

    Right now I'm in a filler part right before a big plot arc is about to start.
     
    Essentially everything in my life is filler. Other than my lifelong goal (ain't tellin'), there's not too much plot in my life. Other than me existing in the first place.
     
    Plot arc: Leaving Marketing school, getting accepted into Game Design school, being hired at nice video game company™
    Filler: My ex, most of my previous friends
     
    Plot - School I guess, volunteer work until I got my first real job, meeting my SO, moving in together, getting engaged and then married.
    Filler - Well everything in the years between. Right now feels a bit filler-y.
     
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