It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.
I'm very comfortable with where history will judge me.
You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive.
People think it's great to be ahead of your time, but it can actually be quite painful.
My individual way of taking on the burdens of history has changed. I don't think of them only as burdens; I think they are honorable.
I've got a history in my life of difficult times.
As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.
What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.
The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.