Song of the Day: 

[[[Between the Raindrops - Lifehouse]]]

It's a rainy and gloomy day; undoubtedly more people than not are in their "thinking" and pensive mood. Old memories arise, old songs and old movies arise, and immediately, old emotions come rushing.  But that's all old; it's in the past. The only thing that brings the past to the present is our thoughts-- those things don't exist anymore but are merely present in our thoughts. What's so good about the past, we ask? Well, in fact, it’s a luxury we have. When we flip through old memories we get to rewrite the past; we are allowed to remember the past for what we want to remember it. We can think back on a relationship and remember it for its sweetness and love; our memories can completely eradicate the yelling and unhappiness we once felt and we can remember the relationship for what we wanted it to be. Sometimes its not such a gift—sometimes our minds only remember the bad, the unhappiness we felt, the anxiety tied to that relationship and it hurts. Our thoughts can bring life to the pain we once felt, when we would actually prefer that stay in the past. Questions come pouring, we starting missing the good, and regretting the old. Sometimes I wonder how it is that, that other person and I, who shared the same two-month experience, could remember it so differently-- how our thoughts can create such distinct memories for us and carry us through life having rewritten the past to our preference. At the end of the day, those are the memories we hold on to, and that’s the reality we make of it. At the end of the rainy day, there’s a rainbow that comes out with the luxury of forgetting the past, as we delve into re-runs of our favorite old-school episodes.