Personal Narrative Essay How To Let Go Of Painful Memories

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How to Let Go of Painful Memories Yesterday was the past; It is gone and will never again be. We often believe that there really is not much we can do about the past. Some people smile when seeing something that reminds the past. Other are too scared to think about it. We know that the most emotional memory that people will never be able to forget is the result of cued recall about our memories. My friend, Sam almost drowned when I pushed him down into the river. I am scared to remember about that time, so I always took a different road to go home. When I hear about people drowning, my heart aches because I know the pain and the fear that they went through. I tried my best to tell myself that my friend is fine now. It was an accident and that …show more content…
After that accident, I wanted to give my friend an apology, but I didn 't know how to face him. I was avoiding all of my friends. I didn 't want to talk or eat together like before. It didn 't get better after a week trying to avoid them. I knew it was my fault, but I just didn 't know how to accept it. Then, I told my best friend about that accident and wanted to have some advice. It was a lot better after telling her about it. Sometime, there is a thing that I do not want others to know, I will write it down in my secret notebook. I understand that I want to get my feeling about those emotions …show more content…
My friend told me that I had to repeat those feelings to accomplish it. I didn 't mean to let him experiment in drowning. It was because I lost my temper. However, every time I thought about Sam, I started to panic. I told myself that it was just an accident, and everything is fine now. I cannot stick in the past forever. Every time I thought it is too much to remember those memories, I will try to take a deep breath, go out for a fresh air, or listen to my favorite song to relax my mind. Then we have to accept them. The best way to treat a cut is to leave it open. I can 't get the song Let it go (Frozen Ost) out of my head, especially the bridge and the line “the cold never bothered me anyway." Elsa is accepting who she is and trying to live in her way. It would be better to think that any good or bad experiences that we have had, is not our fault. Even if it is our fault, it could advance us to some other similar situations. Our memories are always good lessons that we have to learn how to go

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