The mind has an amazing way of protecting us from the traumas of our lives. We experience great stresses and like the small animal injured in a fight, the mind squelches the event and moves us forward to new challenges and new risks. Such is the experience of the 
past few days and months.
The memories are becoming buffered by the action of the mind and everyone speaks of the "good times", and great friends, and wonderful experiences. But if you listen closely, you can hear the remnants of some of the trauma hidden by the artificial expressive aphasia imposed by the mind. For speaking the truth in many cases, while factual, only resurfaces the wounds. And while those truth traumas are really there, we have to thank the brain for doing it's handiwork.
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. 
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