Set the fire to the third bar ..

Once you realize the past is just a story, it has no power over you. 

If the past is just a story, is that a good thing? Are all the things that I have done just a story that could be happening to someone else? I don't believe that there is anything extraordinary in the events that have occurred in my life.Everything that has happened to me has already happened to someone else. Someone else lost a parent very young, someone else pressed flowers in heavy volumes, someone else collected beads, and someone else hated pink as a child. But even so, this is my story.We all want to think we are special and such is the nature of special, that no one is or conversely everyone is. 

At the same time, if the past is just a story, can I forget that its mine? It  loses its power over me. I am no longer a prisoner of the events, memories and thoughts and all those images in my head. My actions are no longer a result of all that has happened to me.  I can do and say things that I wouldn't otherwise. 


If the past is just a story, I want mine to be colorful and moving. Something that makes me tear up in joy or otherwise when I look back. I want my story to remind people of love letters and warm afternoons swathed in wool and impromptu hugs. Something special.