Time, they say, is a great healer. Pain subsides, anger evaporates, dynamics change. Yet, do we get over the tribulations of the past? The ghosts of the past remain that, ghosts. Out of sync with our present reality, unreal, yet somehow still there, floating somewhere in the backdrop.
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what to do? how to rid ourselves of them?
We can't. what we do is who we are. We can just understand the reasons and reconcile with them.
Being healed from the past doesn't mean that you forget the past, does it? The ghosts remain as memories. It's easy to conclude that if we did forget, we'd make the same mistakes repeatedly.
Perhaps I'm too naive to make the following observation as of now, but every memory has an up side to it? At the very least, the most excruciating pain can serve to be poetic inspiration. As cruel and confining bad memories can be, in my opinion, there's still a lot that can be derived from 'exquisite pain'.
I do like how you wrote that the ghosts are out of sync withour present reality. It made me think of rose-colored glasses, oddly. Ghosts are translucent beings, aren't they? They warp our present, the way we see things, the way we experience them. It is alsmot as though we are surrounded by our ghosts more than they float in the backdrop. They are staring us, and we stare through them as they form a tainted version of the world that lies in front of us. Much like rose-colored glasses
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