With people there is a morbid thinking and a looking back in time, that creates a brutal stuckness in the past. I’ve met men and women who refuse to let a block of their history, no matter how painful or bitter , dominate their lives. They refuse to entertain the monologues in their heads or encourage the lengthy conversations with others about wrongs done or past histories. They know that words and images can be powerful triggers, when they are toyed with. Words and images and then narratives will take them to restless places where lengthy rumination and wasted hours and lost sleep dwell.
A looking back that does no good.
