I think that if you could interview protagonists, they would probably describe the events of their stories as "an interesting time in my life." That is, of course, why those stories were made in the first place - they were interesting. Nobody cares about the boring times of people's lives.
"Interesting" also conveniently covers so many possible things. It could be about overcoming adversity, about gaining a new view of the world, about acquiring new skills, about putting those skills to use.
I find it amusing, though, that when people ever say they're at an interesting time in their lives, they are the people I want to spend the least time around. Internal struggle, that major conflict of ideas that rattles the mind and oozes out the body, makes people irritable, whiny, and all-around boring. Their lives may be fodder for an interesting story (usually not, though), but it is the kind of thing that is way funner to read about than to experience.
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