If we get the problem wrong, then the efforts we make to address it are efforts to address the wrong thing and the real problem will never truly be addressed.
My Dad was not a storyteller. Not in my recollection, anyway.
To a degree, everyone who is conscious and capable is on a journey—working out how life should be, experiencing various issues from day to day, encountering matters big and small, and being shaped by their response to what they encounter.