The Burleigh Identity

After reading some more of Mike Birbiglia's Sleepwalk with me, I'm reflecting on my own life and the fact that I don't feel like I have that many events in my life that are story-worthy.  At least not in early life.  In recent years, late twenties/early thirties, more so, but not by a tremendous amount.  It's almost as if I didn't exist up to now.  Like Matt Damon floating face down in the water in the opening sequence of The Bourne Identity.

I'm certainly not a Tabla Rasa, but in a conceptual way, I could conceive of my life beginning right now, at this exact moment.  I'm a fully formed person with skills, traits, and certain tastes, but I can almost see myself as a man with no past. Or at least a past that wouldn't stand in the way of reinventing myself if I choose.