When something's painful, you just avoid it. Why bother dredging up the past if it's nothing but bad stuff?
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I think a lot of us can relate to not choosing to face a painful memory, and something that's a painful past, and wanting to pretend like it never happened.
I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.
We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.
The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens.
Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.
Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.
Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.
Whether it is better to forget and let wounds heal or remember and learn from the past is a crucial question for all of us, wherever we are.
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
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.