The past grabs everyone of us by the throat and makes us cough up new meanings for old experiences. Our best stories grow and grow in our memories until they become our "legends" -- and that is "all good" as we are used to saying. All good!
It is the parts of our past that lie hidden -- the "tiger, tiger, burning bright; in the forests of the night" parts that grab us unawares and pull us back to our more primitive and darker fixations, often unbeknownst to and unacknowledged by us. Each of us has these "burning bright" tigers in our subconscious -- secretly gnawing at our entrails, silently masticating our secret dreams and hopes, unconsciously chomping our most intimate memories.
We never could and we never can satisfy everyone. We are limited by being "we." We are not all our friends, all our relatives, nor all our acquaintances. All of our experiences lie at different depths and achieve different levels in our conscious world.
If we can sift "all" of our experiences we can learn from them; but that requires a thoroughgoing introspection, and a fine editing of what is important and what is not.
And what is important? That is for each of us to decide -- there is no norm; only a norm that is peculiar to our view of life.
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