When you live your life, you do it through stories. Can you live doing so with a blank slate? Your life, all of the stories of the past many years melt away and no longer shape you. You have already been shaped, now it is time to let go and do the living of that life. Live not having any past, live what is happening now. No blame, no guilt, no victim, no accuser. No part of the past moves forward with you, just your true essence comes with you. At first, every moment is a mindful effort to put away the stories. Then, as you get better at identifying and shelving them, you begin to live your life in a different way. From your center. The path is clear and clutter-free, your stories no longer define you. They no longer are you. You simply are who you are without any inside or outside influence. You find that you can do things you never thought possible because you have not limited yourself. You encourage strangers and those you love because you have no agenda now or for the future. No worries about what may be, because you know that the present will not follow you into the future. You can live your life without story. You can live life for now, not shaped by who you once were and what you once did or did not do. You get to be a part of your life, instead of just an echo of it.