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I don't view it as a bad memory or even a particularly sad memory. Rather it is an event from my youth, something out of my control, that had a vital impact on what I am today. I'm grateful for what I've been able to take from it.

But maybe that's what you're trying to say.

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce