This is the story of a man who sees the world outside of himself. At the point shown in this painting, he is having a flashback of his entire life journey. he is like you and me. Born as a clueless child and goes through the turmoil of living, relationships, broken heart, success and failure in all dimensions. marriage, fear and every single time he's stumbled, he knows it was because he went against his better judgement.
We are all burdened to do things a particular way we all keep betraying our intuition.