28th February | Early morning hours | Text

[realimperfect]

The problem with questions, memories, and interactions is that once they occur they are difficult to forget or take back. I am struck time and time again, as people appear and leave this place, how people are difficult and painful gateways to new experiences..

And yet as they possess the power to bring great beauty and opportunity to learn, they also bring with them the ability take their piece of truth and the spice of their life with them when they disappear from this city.

Truth and memories are horrifically inescapable. Don't you think?

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[realimperfect]

And if the lessons that past has taught you are not irrelevant and unnecessary?

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[nolicenseyet]

How do you decide whether or not it's irrelevant or unnecessary? You can't know what will happen in the future, maybe you'll need these unnecessary lessons later on.

And even if you never need it, it's the responsibility of the living to carry their pasts with them. For better or for worse.

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[realimperfect]

So you stick to the thought that experience makes one wise.

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[nolicenseyet]

[There is a long pause from her end. Does experience make you wise? She wasn't sure what some of her experiences made her wiser....]

If you reflect on it.

More important than that, is that they're my experiences. They were the choices I'd made, the people I'd met and wronged and helped. It's a part of me that I can't just throw away.

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[realimperfect]

A valid point. But what if the experiences, regardless of what they are, are completely negative and.. shall I say not useful, in that way?

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[nolicenseyet]

It's still your responsibility to carry it. We can't pick and choose what part of our past to keep with us.