The Red King

In "Alice in Wonderland", Alice whisks the Red King out of the ashes and deposits him on a table. Breathless and shocked, he tells the Red Queen "My dear, I shall never forget the horror of that moment!" The Red Queen replies
calmly, "But you will, my dear, if you don't make a memorandum of it."

And so it goes with most of the ugliness, sorrow and pain that we encounter in life. The agony of childbirth is forgotten in the joy of children. The end of an affair becomes a warm memory. Loss turns to acceptance. Broken bones mend, harsh words fade, tears dry. We go forward because forward is the only way to go.

Recovery, they say in AA, is a journey not a destination. Living is in the traveling.