I consider myself lucky in that way - but then my job is to put my reflections on paper. I go through life trying to do as much reflection as is possible in this culture. I don't know what it's like in England, but here in Canada nobody has free time any more. Things like arts and crafts and hobbies seem to have vanished. And then when people go to sleep at night they figure they have to spend eight hours working out their problems.
Life is all work.
I always find it strange that people spend a third of their lives sleeping and almost none of their lives trying to figure out why. You talk about the need to become 'renarrated', to 'get a life'. Life does just become another commodity, yes, and I don't think that's good. At this stage of capitalism, life's components are certainly rendered into price-pointed activities. It's a kind of no-win situation.