You can only start a new life by changing yourself. Even if your problems are generally external, you can't run away from their emotional effects by running away from them physically. Memories Make the Moment Eternal I often despair the fact that memories of painful events seem to rise up here and there all the time. They don't ever seem to go away, but the fact that they last and persist so much also reminds me that happy times last through memory, too. Because of the very fact that I can't change the past, in a sense anything that happens will always be there somewhere in space and time existing just as it was.
Memory can be a good thing.
It reveals how every moment we experience is, in a way, eternal. If every moment is eternal, nothing can ever really be lost. I let them dry up in the hot sun. If I try to get rid of them, I only seem to strengthen them, but when I just let them sit, motionless in the sand as a stroll past them, they disintegrate. When I last felt this way, I tried thinking of those events as though they had happened in a previous lifetime, because in a sense we are all being reborn all the time when we move or make a life change that really puts the past in its place.