I feel that a lot of people feel impeded by their life story depending on what they grew up on and what experiences they had as a child. If you were raised to be smart, to always do your homework and do chores, you would feel impeded to do the same as you grew up. For me personally, one of the things that I was always told to do was to be kind to other people. Naturally I grew up learning to be kind. As Schechtman says, “by developing and operating with a (mostly implicit) autobiographical narrative which acts as the lens through which we experience the world.” This is stating that most of us experience the world relying on our past stories.
Galen explains that he experiences life in the present. He does try and make memories in order to tell them or write stories about them he just lives these moments as they come. He doesn’t forcefully enjoy moments, he does it just because. He uses a quote from Fernando Pessoa stating, “Each moment I feel as I’ve just been born/ into an endlessly new world” I feel that this is a great way to live, and that more people should experience live as if it is the only day in their life.
You had an interesting viewpoint. In my blog, I claimed the opposite so it was informative to hear the other side of the argument. It almost swayed my decision about the claim I had made. In addition, I agree entirely with your idea that we should be striving to live in the present.