In retrospect

In the lives of each of us, as we look back and review them in retrospect, there are certain desert wastes from which memory winces like some tired traveller faced with a dreary stretch of road.

                                                                                                                                                                 --- P.G. Wodehouse 

Looking back, I can clearly see the futility of our words, actions, emotions and despair when they have the power to change nothing. In fact, as Wodehouse says, my memory winces as it looks back and turns away quickly, to avoid recalling the days of sorrow, humiliations and frustration. Lucky are those whose memories are filled with laughter and contentment.