This document discusses the concept of identity as represented by shoes. It references a quote from the movie Forest Gump about how shoes can tell you about a person. The document then describes aging shoes that seem to follow the author wherever they go and how new shoes also start aging immediately. It details the author setting their old shoes free by hanging them from power lines so the shoes can age without them, as they vow to never let shoes outlive them again and now only travel barefoot.