Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.
What we see changes who we are.
We're all struggling to get out of the past. We see something that reminds us of something, and then we bring our baggage into the present. Then we project it onto people constantly.
When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.
When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.
What we did in our childhoods makes us who we are now.
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