Rejuvenating the EU: Macron right to demand EU reforms

Our capacity to absorb, to move on, to learn from trauma is a survival mechanism to try to live contented lives. Sometimes, if memory is too disturbing, we deliberately forget; we block out grim circumstances that made our lives far harder than they might have been. That denial-to-survive may silence memory, but it does not purge it.

We may wear rose-tinted glasses as we look backward, but the ghosts linger. How we process our past shapes our character, behaviour, and expectations. Simple, random time frames memory, too.