Happiness or embarrassment...sometimes you get to pick what intrusive thoughts to bother with. How to help oneself though?

Some nights, memories just come barging in. Like a floodgate having been opened by the slightest prodding that wasn't even intentional.

Sometimes they bring joy. But today...not so much. How do you heal from a mistake of the past? You have grown and changed so much. You like to think you're a different person now.

But a part of you...still hurts. How to heal from something you thought you've healed from, but turned out to be a case of not really yet anyway?